Burn Wiki
Burn Wiki is an open-access clinical reference for burn care. 4 topics are currently published. See About for how content is built.
Resuscitation
The first 24-72 hours
Wound Care
From initial dressing through definitive closure
Airway and Pulmonary
Inhalation injury and respiratory management
Assessment and Triage
Evaluating the burn patient
Burn Physiology
The science, biology, and physics of burn injury
Critical Care
ICU management and systemic complications
Disaster and Humanitarian Burn Response
Mass-casualty burn events and humanitarian-crisis burn care. Incident command integration, burn surge capacity, triage in resource-constrain…
Epidemiology and Prevention
Who gets burned and how to stop it
Ethics
Ethical dimensions of burn care. Consent in altered-mental-status burn patients, end-of-life decision-making, resource allocation in mass-ca…
Global and LMIC Burn Care
Burn care in low-and-middle-income-country (LMIC) contexts and global burn-care perspectives. Resource-limited resuscitation protocols, adap…
Metabolic Support
Nutrition, pharmacology, and metabolism
Military / Combat Burn Care
Distinct operational context for burn care in military and combat settings. Austere-environment management, pre-hospital and evacuation logi…
Nursing
Burn nursing practice. Admission workup, wound-care nursing procedures, patient handoffs, nursing documentation, family support from the nur…
Operations
Burn center operations and education
Pharmacy
Medication management, pharmacokinetics in burn patients, pain-management protocols from pharmacy perspective, antimicrobial stewardship, nu…
Populations and Settings
Population-specific and context-specific care
Psychosocial
Mental health, psychology, psychiatry, counseling. Acute and recovery-phase psychological care for burn patients. PTSD after burn injury, de…
Reconstruction and Scar
Scar management and regional reconstruction
Recovery
Rehabilitation, psychology, and return to life
Rehabilitation
Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, functional restoration from the MDT-role perspective. Strength and range-of-motion p…
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, employm…
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 v…