Editing Burns (section)

== '''Indications for referral to a burns centre''' ==

* Partial-thickness burns involving >10% TBSA
* Burns involving face, hands, feet, genitalia, perineum or major joints
* Any full-thickness burn
* Electrical burns, including lightning injury
* Chemical burns
* Inhalation injury
* Burns in patients with pre-existing medical disorders that could complicate management, prolong recovery, or affect outcome
* Any patient with burns and concomitant trauma in which the burn injury poses the greater immediate risk of morbidity and mortality. In such cases, if the trauma poses the greater immediate risk, the patient may be initially transferred to a burn unit. Physician judgment is necessary in such situations and should be in concern with the regional medical control plan and triage protocols.
* Burned children in hospitals without qualified personnel or equipment to care for children
* Burns in patients who will benefit from special social, emotional or long-term rehabilitative intervention.