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

SUBMITTER: Maudet L 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature