Elsevier

Burns

Volume 42, Issue 5, August 2016, Pages 953-1021
Burns

ISBI Practice Guidelines for Burn Care

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Highlights

  • An important component of the goal of education is to be able to communicate a consensus opinion on different aspects of management, one that could serve to benchmark a standard of burn care.

  • The purpose of setting forth practice guidelines is to define the most effective and efficient methods of evaluation and management of burn injuries.

  • The ISBI Guidelines for Burn Care has been written to address the needs of burn specialists everywhere in the world.

Abstract

Practice guidelines (PGs) are recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries, and are designed to define optimal evaluation and management. The first PGs for burn care addressed the issues encountered in developed countries, lacking consideration for circumstances in resource-limited settings (RLS). Thus, the mission of the 2014–2016 committee established by the International Society for Burn Injury (ISBI) was to create PGs for burn care to improve the care of burn patients in both RLS and resource-abundant settings. An important component of this effort is to communicate a consensus opinion on recommendations for burn care for different aspects of burn management. An additional goal is to reduce costs by outlining effective and efficient recommendations for management of medical problems specific to burn care. These recommendations are supported by the best research evidence, as well as by expert opinion. Although our vision was the creation of clinical guidelines that could be applicable in RLS, the ISBI PGs for Burn Care have been written to address the needs of burn specialists everywhere in the world.

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Conflict of interest statement: All of the 32 authors have declared no conflict of interest.

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