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Burn Wiki — an open-access clinical reference for burn care
Evidence-anchored topics on burn resuscitation, critical care, wound care, surgery, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and recovery — physician-reviewed and sourced to primary literature. See About for how content is built.
Airway Pulmonary
Assessment Triage
Burn Physiology
Epidemiology Prevention
Resuscitation
Wound Care
Critical Care
ICU management and systemic complications
Metabolic Support
Nutrition, pharmacology, and metabolism
Populations and Settings
Population-specific and context-specific care
Reconstruction and Scar
Scar management and regional reconstruction
Recovery
Rehabilitation, psychology, and return to life
Planned sections — in editorial pipeline
- Global Burn
- Infection
- Nutrition
- Pediatric
- Psychosocial
- Reconstruction
- Rehabilitation
- Surgery
- Disaster and Humanitarian Burn Response
Mass-casualty burn events and humanitarian-crisis burn care. Incident command integration, burn surge capacity, triage in resource-constrained scenarios, inter-hospital transfer coordination, non-governmental organization (NGO) response in developing regions, burn care in refugee and conflict-zone settings.
- Ethics
Ethical dimensions of burn care. Consent in altered-mental-status burn patients, end-of-life decision-making, resource allocation in mass-casualty scenarios, pediatric ethical considerations, research ethics in burn trials, conflict-of-interest in industry-sponsored research, cultural considerations in burn care.
- Global and LMIC Burn Care
Burn care in low-and-middle-income-country (LMIC) contexts and global burn-care perspectives. Resource-limited resuscitation protocols, adaptation of Western evidence to local contexts, burn-center development in LMIC settings, global burn epidemiology, international collaboration models.
- Military / Combat Burn Care
Distinct operational context for burn care in military and combat settings. Austere-environment management, pre-hospital and evacuation logistics for blast + thermal injuries, combat-associated polytrauma, long-distance transport to definitive care, Role 1-4 system, field-expedient techniques.
- Nursing
Burn nursing practice. Admission workup, wound-care nursing procedures, patient handoffs, nursing documentation, family support from the nursing perspective, nursing role in multi-disciplinary care coordination.
- Operations
Burn center operations and education
- Pharmacy
Medication management, pharmacokinetics in burn patients, pain-management protocols from pharmacy perspective, antimicrobial stewardship, nutrition-pharmacy interface, drug dosing adjustments for burn patients with altered pharmacokinetics.
- Research and Evidence
Research methods and evidence synthesis
- Social Work
Discharge planning from the social-work perspective. Family support and family-systems intervention, resource navigation (insurance, employment, housing), community re-integration, intentional-burn-injury case work, advocacy, post-discharge follow-up coordination.
- Special Injuries
Non-thermal and special mechanism injuries
- Survivor Experience
Burn survivor voice, lived experience, peer support, patient-authored content, recovery narratives, survivor advocacy. Not the clinician's view of the patient — the survivor's own perspective on the same injury, treatment, and recovery process.