Society guideline links: Care of the patient with burn injury

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Acute pain management" and "Society guideline links: Chronic pain management" and "Society guideline links: Nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) in adults" and "Society guideline links: Nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) in infants and children" and "Society guideline links: Acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome in adults" and "Society guideline links: General issues of trauma management in adults".)

International

●International Society for Burn Injury (ISBI): Practice guidelines for burn care, part 2 (2018)

●ISBI: Practice guidelines for burn care (2016)

●Practice guidelines for the application of nonsilicone or silicone gels and gel sheets after burn injury (2015)

●World Health Organization (WHO): A plan for burn prevention and care (2008)

●ISBI: Guidelines for dealing with disasters involving large numbers of extensive burns (2006)

●International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (ICAR) and International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA): Official guidelines on lightning injuries – Prevention and on-site treatment in mountains and remote areas (2005)

Canada

●Canadian Dermatology Association (CDA): Position statement on sun protection and sunscreen use (2022)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Burns – Eleven tests and treatments to question (updated 2020)

United States

●American Burn Association (ABA): Clinical practice guidelines on burn shock resuscitation (2023)

●ABA: Clinical practice guideline – Early mobilization and rehabilitation of critically ill burn patients (2022)

●ABA: Position statement on home oxygen burn prevention (2022)

●ABA: Guidelines on the management of acute pain in the adult burn patient – A review of the literature, a compilation of expert opinion and next steps (2020)

●Western Trauma Association (WTA): Critical decisions in trauma – Preferred triage and initial management of the burned patient (2019)

●ABA: Guideline for burn care under austere conditions – Special care topics (2017)

●ABA: Guidelines for burn care under austere conditions – Special etiologies: Blast, radiation, and chemical injuries (2017)

●ABA: Guidelines for burn care under austere conditions – Introduction to burn disaster, airway and ventilator management, and fluid resuscitation (2016)

●ABA: Guidelines for burn care under austere conditions – Surgical and nonsurgical wound management (2016)

●American College of Surgeons (ACS): Statement on older adult burn prevention (2016)

●Wilderness Medical Society (WMS): Practice guidelines for basic wound management in the austere environment, update (2014)

●WMS: Practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of lightning injuries, update (2014)

●Wounds International: Best practice guidelines – Effective skin and wound management in non-complex burns (2014)

●ABA: Practice guidelines for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in burn patients (2009)

●Wound Healing Society (WHS): Guidelines to aid healing of acute wounds by decreasing impediments of healing (2008)

●ABA/ACS: Guidelines for the operation of burn centers (2007)

●Practice guidelines for the management of electrical injuries (2006)

Europe

●European Wound Management Association (EWMA): Thermal burns – Practical recommendation for resource-limited setting

●European Resuscitation Council (ERC): Guidelines on cardiac arrest in special circumstances (2021)

●Eschar removal by bromelain based enzymatic debridement in burns: European consensus guidelines update (2020)

●European Burns Association (EBA): European practice guidelines for burn care – Minimum level of burn care provision in Europe (2017)

●Cyanide poisoning by fire smoke inhalation – A European expert consensus (2013)

●European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN): Endorsed recommendations – Nutritional therapy in major burns (2013)

●Pediatric cyanide poisoning by fire smoke inhalation – A European expert consensus (2013)

●European first aid guidelines (2007)

United Kingdom

●British Burn Association (BBA): Guidelines for pre-hospital care (first aid clinical practice guidelines)

●National Health System (NHS) Scotland: Care of Burns in Scotland (COBIS) – Clinical guidelines

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Medical technologies guidance on moorLDI2-BI – A laser doppler blood flow imager for burn wound assessment (2011, updated 2017)

●NICE: Guideline on sunlight exposure – Risks and benefits (2016)

●NICE: Medical technologies guidance on the ReCell Spray-On Skin system for treating skin loss, scarring and depigmentation after burn injury (2014)

●Consensus on the prehospital approach to burns patient management (2004)

Australia–New Zealand

●New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation (NSW ACI): Burn transfer guidelines, 4th edition (amended 2022)

●NSW ACI: Child life therapy – Burn patient management: Clinical guide (2020)

●NSW ACI: Clinical guidelines for burn patient management, 4th edition (2020)

●NSW ACI: Donor site management for burn patients – A clinical guide (amended 2020)

●NSW ACI: Skin graft management for burn patients – A clinical guide (2020)

●NSW ACI: Clinical guidelines for escharotomy for burn patients, 2nd edition (amended 2019)

●NSW ACI: Clinical guidelines for minor burn management, 4th edition (amended 2019)

●NSW ACI: Burn physiotherapy and occupational therapy guidelines, 1st edition (amended 2017)

●Department of Health, Government of South Australia (SA Health): Management of paediatric burns clinical guideline (2015)

●Australian and New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA): Burn trauma rehabilitation – Allied health practice guidelines (2014)

●NSW ACI: Clinical practice guidelines for speech pathology burn patient management (2011)

●NSW ACI: Clinical practice guidelines on nutrition burn patient management (2011)

●NSW ACI: Clinical practice guidelines on social work (adults) burn patient management (2011)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society for Burn Injuries (JSBI): Clinical practice guidelines for management of burn care, 3rd edition (2022)

●[In Japanese] JSBI: Clinical practice guidelines for management of burn care, 3rd edition (2021)

●[In English] Japanese Dermatological Association (JDA): The wound/burn guidelines – 6: Guidelines for the management of burns (2016)