Prehospital management of burns requiring specialized burn centre evaluation: a single physician-based emergency medical service experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency medical services regularly encounter severe burns. As standards of care are relatively well-established regarding their hospital management, prehospital care is comparatively poorly defined. The aim of this study was to describe burned patients taken care of by our physician-staffed emergency medical service (PEMS).

Methods

All patients directly transported by our PEMS to our burn centre between January 2008 and December 2017 were retrospectively enrolled. We specifically addressed three "burn-related" variables: prehospital and hospital burn size estimations, type and volume of infusion and pain assessment and management. We divided patients into two groups for comparison: TBSA < 20% and ≥ 20%. We a priori defined clinically acceptable limits of agreeme

SUBMITTER: Maudet L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7439538 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature