Table 2

Number of postburn discharge admissions (%) for NS subconditions for the burn and non-injury cohorts

NS conditionsNumber of admissions N (%)
No injuryBurn injury
Total7311 (100)6121 (100)
Inflammatory diseases of CNS98 (1.3)77 (1.3)
Systemic atrophies primarily affecting CNS79 (1.1)42 (0.7)
Extrapyramidal and movement disorders172 (2.4)117 (1.9)
Other degenerative diseases of NS171 (2.3)98 (1.6)
Demyelinating diseases of the CNS721 (9.9)214 (3.5)
Episodic and paroxysmal disorders2830 (38.7)3814 (62.3)
Epilepsy and recurrent seizures417 (5.7)2589 (42.3)
Migraine, other headache symptoms336 (4.6)418 (6.8)
Transient cerebral ischaemic attacks and related syndromes503 (6.9)201 (3.3)
Sleep disorders1503 (20.6)400 (6.5)
Nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders2049 (28.0)918 (15.0)
Disorders trigeminal, facial and cranial nerve100 (1.4)55 (0.9)
Nerve root and plexus disorders27 (0.4)48 (0.8)
Mononeuropathy upper/lower limbs1890 (25.9)745 (12.2)
Other mononeuropathies31 (0.4)70 (1.1)
Polyneuropathies, peripheral NS disorders760 (10.4)374 (6.1)
Hereditary and idiopathic neuropathy149 (2.0)7 (0.1)
Inflammatory polyneuropathy405 (5.5)276 (4.5)
Other and unspecified polyneuropathies206 (2.8)91 (1.5)
Myoneural junction and muscle diseases32 (0.4)23 (0.4)
Cerebral palsy, other paralytic syndromes105 (1.4)120 (2.0)
Other disorders NS294 (4.0)324 (5.3)
  • Italicised—subconditions.

  • CNS, central nervous system; NS, nervous system.