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The course of burn injury in elderly and old age persons is characterized by the acuteness of the course of the wound process, affecting all organs and systems. Age-related features (decreased cognitive processes and critics of their condition, accompanying premorbid background, etc.) in such patients increase the risk of complications [3,12]. Therefore, in the course of treatment, constant medical supervision and care is necessary, as well as the inclusion of a multidisciplinary team of specialists in the preoperative period [2,10,14]. Despite the wide coverage of this problem in both domestic and foreign literature, many of its aspects are still far from being resolved. The body of an elderly person can be considered as a kind of conglomerate of pathological conditions that aggravate each other and have a negative impact on the main process – burn disease. These include diabetes mellitus [6,9,13,16], atherosclerosis [15], long-term, nutritional and auto sensitization [5,7], organ atrophy, their functional insufficiency, etc. [4,8,11]. General deep burns cause dysfunction of all organs and systems, which is manifested by clinical and physiological symptoms, changes in clinical and laboratory, biochemical and immunological parameters, morphological disorders and other reactions[1].