Regulation .17 Burn Center Referral Criteria.
Regulation .17 Burn Center Referral Criteria.LinkCopy Citation
A burn injury requiring referral to a burn center includes:
A.
A partial thickness or full thickness burn greater than 10 percent total body surface area (TBSA) in patients younger than 10 years old;
B.
A partial thickness or full thickness burn greater than 20 percent TBSA in other age groups;
C.
A partial thickness or full thickness burn that involves the face, hands, feet, genitalia, perineum, and major joints;
D.
All full thickness burns greater than 5 percent TBSA in any age group;
E.
An electrical/lightening injury;
F.
A chemical injury;
G.
An inhalation injury;
H.
Frostbite and cold injury;
I.
A burn injury in patients with preexisting medical disorders that could:
(1)
Complicate management;
(2)
Prolong recovery; and
(3)
Affect mortality;
J.
A burn injury with concomitant trauma, such as a fracture, in which the burn injury poses the greatest risk of morbidity in accordance with the following considerations:
(1)
If trauma poses the greater immediate risk, the patient may be treated initially in the trauma center until stable before being transferred to a burn center; and
(2)
Physician judgment is necessary in these situations and shall be in concert with the regional medical control plan and triage protocols;
K.
A burn injury in a child who has not reached their fifteenth (15th) birthday, who shall be treated in a pediatric burn center designated by MIEMSS; and
L.
A burn injury in patients who will require special social, emotional, or long-term rehabilitative support including cases involving suspected child abuse or substance abuse.