Severe burns - for you as a referrer
The Burn Centre at Uppsala University Hospital accepts burns of all severities. For patients with severe burns, contact should be made with the National Highly Specialised Care unit (NHVe) for consideration of possible transfer to the NHVe.
Severe burns - for you as a referrer
The Burn Centre at Uppsala University Hospital accepts burns of all severities. For patients with severe burns, contact should be made with the National Highly Specialised Care unit (NHVe) for consideration of possible transfer to the NHVe.
Definition of severe burns
Severe burns mean:
Superficial epidermis
- Children <3 years with >5% TBSA
- Children <16 years with >10% TBSA
- Adults (16-65 years) with >20% TBSA
- Elderly (>65 years) with >10% TBSA
- Deep partial skin/full skin
- All deep partial thickness or full thickness burns.
Others - Serious electrical damage
- Serious chemical damage
- Toxic epidermiolysis >10%
- Combination injury (inhalation injury/trauma)
- Circumferential type burns
- Critical site burns (face, head, hands, feet, genitalia, perineum and large joints)4
- Burn injury in combination with another complicating condition of the patient and/or special needs of the patient.
Clarification:
If the conditions are right, some patients may, at the discretion of the NHVe, be cared for/managed in the home region. The assessment can be done by telephone.
Contact us
Consultant responsible for the subject area, Associate Professor: Fredrik Huss, via switchboard 018-611 00 00.
Borderline cases
Burns that you, as the referrer, consider to be borderline cases must always be discussed with a hospital licenced to provide national healthcare. By borderline cases we mean those that fall within the given definition but where referral is not considered obvious. If the receiving hospital and the hospital licenced to provide national healthcare disagree on where a patient should be treated, this should be documented for follow-up.
Care time
Once a patient has been referred to a hospital licenced to provide national healthcare, the patient should be cared for in that hospital, for as long as good care requires access to the multi-professional and structural expertise available in that hospital. After that, the patient can be cared for in the unit that the referring hospital considers most appropriate.