Burn center criteria

Burn Center Transfer Criteria

• 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

See Also

• Burn