Burn Care on
the Internet
Burn Survivors
Burns Support Group Database
by Rudy Peleman
An Internet directory of resources for burn survivors
developed and maintained by burn survivor, Rudy Peleman.
Burn
Survivors Online
To provide assistance, information and support
for the 2 million burn injury's occurring each
year in the United States alone. At Burn Survivors Online you can
learn, ask questions and receive support from other burn
survivors who are
willing to share their knowledge with you.
Burn
Survivors Throughout The World
Extensive website of resources for burn survivors. Several
chat rooms, articles by physicians and therapists, and useful
links.
Burn
Foundations and Private Support Institutions
Alisa Ann Ruch Burn
Foundation
Survivor
assistance programs are designed to relieve
emotional suffering, create opportunities for
socializing, and help build the skills necessary
to cope in a society that highly values physical
appearance. The Burn Foundation is funded
entirely by private sources including:
firefighter associations, community groups,
corporations, local businesses and individuals.
British
Columbia Burn Network Society
The Vanserve site. The Burn
Survivor Resource on the Web. This web site
is managed by the B.C. Burn Network Society and
is dedicated to improving the lives of Burn
Survivors and those who support them.
Burn Survivors Association
Principle activity is the production of the
Newsletter "in Touch". Affiliated with the Ross Tilley
Burn Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Georgia Firefighters Burn
Foundation
The Foundation's mission is to assist burn survivors in their
recovery, support medical facilities in the care
of burns in Georgia, and educate the public in
burn awareness and prevention.
Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors
A
non-profit organization comprised of dedicated
and diverse volunteers committed to effectively
supporting burn survivors and their families in
their rehabilitation and helping them return to
successful lives.
San Diego Burn
Institute
Founded in 1972, one of
the Burn Institute's first accomplishments was to
establish a regional burn center to provide
specialized treatment for burn victims. Today,
the Regional Burn Center operates as part of the
UCSD Medical Center.
Surviving
Burns Support Services, Inc.
A newly founded non-profit organization providing resources
and a meeting place for burn survivors of all ages, and their
friends and families. Look here for camps, adult retreats,
testimonials, open group meetings, and information on mentors
for survivors.
Hospital Burn Units
Arizona
Burn Center at Maricopa Medical Center
The
Arizona Burn Center at Maricopa Medical Center serves all of
Arizona and receives patients from many surrounding states and
Northern Mexico. In 1999, the Burn Center provided care to 399
in-patients, 1500 out-patients, and 3000 out-patient visits
annually. This center of excellence is a 19-bed facility, all
of which can be dedicated intensive care beds. Emergency burn
care is available 24 hours a day.
Baltimore
Regional Burn Center, Johns
Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
The Burn Center provides a comprehensive, nationally
recognized program of care for patients with burn injuries. Our
goal focuses on returning patients to their highest level of
function and includes the physical, psychological, social and
vocational aspects of their lives.
Burn Trauma Center at Western Pennsylvania
A pioneer in the
development of a multidisciplinary approach to
care of the burned patient that includes
specialized medical care, resuscitation, reconstructive procedures,
emotional and psychological counseling, nutrition
planning, and physical therapy and occupational
therapy.
Children's
Hospital of Denver
The Burn Center opened in 1974 as the first multidisciplinary
provider of burn care in Colorado. Each child receives timely,
coordinated care which reduces, and in many cases eliminates,
hospital stays.
DeNicolai
Burn Center at Alta Bates
A fully independent unit with its
own operating room, the Burn Center is specifically designed to
care for adults with burns or major skin loss injury. The Burn
Center provides full service to all levels of burn patients, as
well as those with complications such as smoke inhalation, on an
outpatient and inpatient basis. Consultative services are
available to physicians treating patients with minor burn
injuries in their private practice. The Burn Center performed
the nation's first artificial skin graft.
Burn Center, Westchester County Medical Center
The only Burn Center between New York City and
the Canadian border, Westchester County Medical
Center offers hope for survival and a productive
life to hundreds of burn victims each year. It has private rooms
and its own operating room and treatment areas. Family rooms,
day rooms and a kitchen make patients and families as
comfortable as possible during what can be a long recovery
period.
Intermountain
Burn Center, University of Utah Hospital
A 13 - bed adult and pediatric intensive care and rehabilitation
unit, directed by Jeffrey R. Saffle, MD, FACS. It includes a
physical therapy department, rehabilitation area, operating
room, hydrotherapy room, skin bank, outpatient wound care and
medical clinic. The center admits some 300 burn patients and has
more than 1,200 clinic visits annually. In addition to burn
patients, the Intermountain Burn Center treats patients with
toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN's) and soft tissue infections
which require surgery. We serve the largest geographical area of
any burn facility in the country.
Lehigh Valley Hospital's Burn Center
Lehigh Valley Health Network's Burn Center
offers six isolation units, a hydrotherapy area, a nourishment
center, and specialized operating room facilities that give
superior care to adults and children who have suffered severe
burns. The center participates in a consortium of burn care
providers serving a 20-county region in four states.
Medical
University of South Carolina Adult Burn Center and the Section
of Burn Surgery
A ten bed Unit dedicated to the comprehensive management of
adult burn victims. The Burn Unit consists of five intensive
care beds with two isolation rooms and five stepdown beds. The
Unit is located in proximity to the operating suites and the
other surgical intensive care units. A complete spectrum of
supportive services are routinely used in the care of burned
patients including psychiatric, nutritional, occupational and
physical medicine services, as well as rehabilitative services
and plastic surgical consultations where indicated.
Miller-Dwan Burn Center
A 15-bed regional
burn care facility serving Northeastern
Minnesota, Northwestern Wisconsin and the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan. Comprehensive burn care
for patients of all ages, infants to elderly, is
provided.
Nathan
Speare Regional Burn Treatment Center
Provides specialized burn care to acutely burned patients in the
greater Delaware Valley. Provides a total spectrum of care in an
8-bed intensive care area and a 9-bed comprehensive care
area/rehabilitative care area. The Burn Center is part of the
Burn Foundation, which serves burn victims in all areas of
southern New Jersey, Delaware, and eastern Pennsylvania.
Shriners Burns Institutes
Boston
Cincinnati Galveston and Sacramento -- Shriners Hospitals remain
pioneers in burn treatment and provide excellent medical care to
severely burned children. These institutes are actively involved
in research, and many of the advances in burn care have been the
result of Shrine investigations. Since the Shriners Hospitals
specializing in burn care first opened, the survival rate for
children with burns over 50 percent of their total body surface
area has doubled. Today, these specialized hospitals are saving
the lives of children with burns over more than 90 percent of
body surface area.
Tampa
Bay Regional Burn Center
One of just four burn centers
in the state. We are dedicated
to treating critically burned patients from initial emergency
admission through reconstructive surgery and follow-up care.
Staffed by physicians, nurses and other health professionals
specializing in burn treatment.
University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center
Originally founded in 1959 as the University of
Michigan Burn Center -- one of the first such
centers in the United States. It developed an
international reputation for leadership in
patient care and rehabilitation.
University of Iowa Burn Center
The Burn Center admits an
average of 140 patients with major burns each
year. Most of the extensive burns that occur in
the state of Iowa are sent to this center for
care. Outpatient burn care is available 24 hours
a day, with an average of 1,000 visits per year.
University of
Miami, Jackson Memorial Burn
Center
The Burn Center is among the busiest and best in the
nation. Over 300 patients are admitted annually
for burn care and 1,000 are seen as outpatient in
the clinics, in emergency room, and in the
rehabilitation areas of the burn service.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Regional
Burn Center
Vanderbilt's 20-bed Level I Burn
Center is staffed by physicians, nurses,
therapists and support personnel including
psychiatrists and a chaplain who work as a team
to apply the most advanced technology and
treatment methods to care for severely burned
patients.
Burn
Research
Burns in Western Australia Research Group
A
unique research group based in Perth, Western
Australia, to facilitate and engage in
inter-disciplinary research in the field of burn
injuries.
Direct
Measurement of Cutaneous Pressures Generated by Pressure Garments
Pressure garments are the mainstay of burn scar
management. This study demonstrates a simple method of
directly measuring the cutaneous pressures
generated by a pressure garment.
Journal of Burn Care &
Rehabilitation
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Editor in Chief: Glenn Warden, MD. As the official publication of the
American Burn Association, this is the only U.S.
journal devoted exclusively to the treatment and
rehabilitation of patients with burns.
Medical
Matrix
A free directory of selected medical sites on the Internet. Each
site listing has been carefully evaluated by reviewers from our
panel of physicians and medical librarians. Medical Matrix lists
only those sites that meet our criteria for information quality
and site usability, with an emphasis on usefulness to healthcare
practitioners.
MEDLINE
Produced by the National Library of
Medicine, Medline contains over 9 million references to
medical journal articles, making it the largest,
most widely used medical database in the world.
National Rehabilitation Information Center
(NARIC)
The NARIC is a library and information center on
disability and rehabilitation. Funded since 1979
by the National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), NARIC collects
and disseminates the results of federally funded
research projects.
Scar
Management of Cultured Epithelial Autograft
Since the introduction of cultured epithelial
autograft (CEA) into the treatment of the burns
wounds the resulting scar has caused a great deal
of concern. When CEA is applied to a deep wound
the resulting scar is subject to breakdown with
minimal trauma.
Single-dose electron beam irradiation in
treatment and prevention of keloids and
hypertrophic scars
Theodore C.M. Lo, Brooke R. Seckel, Ferdinand A. Salzman and Kenneth A.
Wright. Low megavolt electron beam irradiation
was used on 354 sites in 199 patients at the
Lahey Clinic.
Burn-Related
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation
The national medical specialty
society of physical medicine and rehabilitation
physicians. PM&R physicians provide
cost-effective care for patients with acute and
chronic pain, catastrophic injuries,
musculoskeletal disorders, back pain, and work-
or sports-related injuries.
American Burn Association
Your
link to information and interactive communication
on burn care and related research, teaching,
rehabilitation, and prevention issues.
American Physical Therapy Association
A national, professional organization representing
more than 72,000 physical therapists, physical
therapist assistants, and students. APTA's goal
is to foster advancement in physical therapy
practice, education, and research.
American Occupational Therapy Association
Supporting a professional community for members
and to develop and preserve the viability and
relevance of the profession. The organization
serves the interests of its members, represents
the profession to the public, and promotes access
to occupational therapy services.
New York Physical Therapy Association
A professional association of approximately 4,400
members, consisting of physical therapists,
physical therapists assistants and PT/PTA
students, dedicated to serving the health
interests of the New York public and improving
the standard of health for all individuals.
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