Changing Pattern of Adult Burn Referrals to a Regional Burns Centre

The National Burn Care Review prompted us to review trends in adult acute admissions to our unit with the intention to implement the guidelines of referral set down in the report. We had recently also adopted a more open admissions policy in keeping with these recommendations. This was achieved by a retrospective casenote analysis with the years 1981, 1991, and 2001 used as reference snapshot years to outline trends. The results showed an increase in the number of patients, a decrease in the depth and extent of burns, a decrease in the number of inpatient days and crude mortality rate. There was also a slight decrease in the age of patients.

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