Burn center criteria
Burn Center Transfer Criteria[1]
- Partial thickness >20% BSA (10-50 years old)
- Partial thickness >10% BSA (<10 or > 50 yrs old)
- Full thickness >5% BSA (any age)
- Burns involving face, eyes, ears, genitalia, joints, hands, feet
- Burns with inhalation injury
- High voltage electrical burn
- Chemical burns
- Burns complicated by fracture or other trauma (in which burn is main cause of morbidity)
- Burns in high-risk patients