Sentence examples for burn centres from inspiring English sources
The Western Cape Province of South Africa represents a middle-income setting with a high rate of burns, few specialists and few burn centres, yet a well-developed pre-hospital system.
International estimates of the incidence of non-accidental burns (NAB) in children admitted to burn centres vary from 1% to 25%.
However, the care for burn patients is not restricted to these burn centres or the aftercare services.
Second, not all patients with severe burn injuries are timely (or not at all) referred to burn centres.
More burns occurred in areas far from urban hospitals and burn centres.
This period was chosen to balance experience with aftercare and recall bias; History of hospitalization in one of the six burn centres and meeting the legal criteria for admission to a burn centre.
For transported patients, 51.1% (n = 292) rural and 60.3% (n = 293) urban had burn injuries that met the burn centre referral criteria, compared to 39.6% (n = 21) rural and 52.8% (n = 46) urban with injuries that met the referral criteria, yet remained on scene.
Alternatively, burn centre referral criteria may not be a good indicator of burn urgency or severity in pre-hospital care.
In case hypoglycemia occurs, in our burn centre we implemented infusing 50 cm3 dextrose in water (50%) intravenously and readjusting the insulin infusion protocol (see Figure 1).
Two of the services that were of no particular difference to other services of the same status (burn unit or burn centre mixed occupancy services) were omitted from the analysis due to abnormal values in their records.
