Abstract:Objective To explore the value of serum IL-6 combined with lymphocyte / monocyte ratio (LMR) in the occurrence and prognosis of sepsis in children with severe burn.Methods The clinical data of 78 children with severe burn treated in the affiliated Children's Hospital of Zhengzhou University and the first people's Hospital of Zhengzhou from December 2015 to June 2020 were analyzed retrospectively. The results of blood routine and serum IL-6 were collected on admission, day 7, day 14, and day 21 after burn. The patients were divided into sepsis group and non-sepsis group according to whether they had sepsis or not, survival group, and death group according to the prognosis, with the sex, age, (TBSA) of total burn area, inhalation injury, mechanical ventilation and other indexes taken into account. The predictive value of IL-6 combined with LMR on sepsis on day 7 and day 14 was analyzed by receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) curve, and the effects of IL-6 and LMR on the survival rate of severe burn patients were analyzed by Kaplan-Meier method.Results There were significant differences in inhalation injury, mechanical ventilation, TBSA, absolute number of lymphocytes, and the levels of IL-6 and LMR on day 7, day 14, and day 21 after burn between the sepsis group and the non-sepsis group (P < 0.05); there were significant differences in mechanical ventilation, sepsis, TBSA, LMR, and IL-6 between the survival group and the death group (P < 0.05); there was a positive correlation between IL-6 and TBSA (P < 0.05), and a negative correlation between LMR and TBSA (P < 0.05). On day 7 after burn, the area under the curve (AUC) of ROC curve analysis of IL-6 combined with LMR was 0.767, the sensitivity was 93.9%, and the specificity was 59.3%. And on the day 14, the AUC of IL-6 combined with LMR was 0.713, the sensitivity was 93.9%, and the specificity was 69.0%, which was more effective than that of IL-6 alone (P < 0.05). The Kaplan-Meier survival curve showed that the overall survival rates of severe burns in the high IL-6 group and the low IL-6 group on the day 7 after burn were 55.6% and 98.0%; the overall survival rates of the high IL-6 group and the low IL-6 group on the day 14 after burn were 45.8% and 100.0%; the overall survival rates of patients in low LMR group and high LMR group on the day 7 were 54.0% and 94.8%; the overall survival rates of patients in low LMR group and high LMR group on day 14 were 25.0% and 98.4%.Conclusion IL-6 combined with LMR on day 7 and day 14 after injury has better predictive value and clinical significance for the occurrence and prognosis of sepsis for children with severe burn.