Burn Wiki

Planned sections — in editorial pipeline

• Global Burn
• Infection
• Nutrition
• Pediatric
• Psychosocial
• Reconstruction
• Rehabilitation
• Surgery
• Burn Physiology

  The science, biology, and physics of burn injury

• 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.