Burns

Availability of places at the burn wards

One of the ways of ensuring a successful treatment of patients suffering from burns is a fast and professional air transport to the appropriate burn treatment centers. Polish Medical Air Rescue and Polish Association for the Treatment of Burns made an agreement on 5 March 2005, in which they agreed to a cooperation in transporting patients with burns to burn treatment centers. The table below contains the information about treatment centers for burns and is kept up to date regarding the avaliability of beds in treatment centers.

Avaliability of beds in treatment centers:

Nr.	Name and address of the first choice hospital ward	Phone numbers	Name of the hospital, in which the first choice hospital ward is located
1	Oddział Chirurgii Plastycznej i Rekonstrukcyjnej os. Złotej Jesieni 1 31-826 Kraków	Doctor’s office: 12 6468663; 12 6468789 Nurse’s office: 12 6468494; 12 6468639 Operation ward: 12 6468544 Emergency phone number: 501431430	Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Rydygiera in Kraków
2	Klinika Chirurgii Ogólnej i Chirurgii Ręki ul. Unii Lubelskiej 1 71-252 Szczecin Entrance H, ground floor	Doctor’s office: 91 4253522; 91 4253201; 91 4253203 Nurse’s office: 91 4253520 Operation ward: 91 4253126 Emergency phone number: 695112038 Office: 91 4253196	Samodzielny Publiczny Szpital Kliniczny Nr. 1 Pomorskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego im. prof. Tadeusza Sokołowskiego
3	Klinika Ortopedii, Traumatologii i Chirurgii Ręki ul. 28 Czerwca 1956r. nr 135/147 61-545 Poznań	Admission room: 61 8310369 On-call doctor: 604 953 973; 61 8310389	Ortopedyczno-Rehabilitacyjny Szpital Kliniczny im. Wiktora Degi Uniwersytetu Medycznego in Poznań
4	Katedra i Klinika Ortopedii i Traumatologii Narządu Ruchu GUM Nowe Ogrody 1 60-803 Gdańsk	Dr. hab. Tomasz Mazurek: 606 620 546 Dr. Filip Dąbrowski: 602 450 507 Nurse’s office: 58 7640229 Emergency department: 58 7640116	Copernicus PL spółka z o. o.
5	Oddział Chirurgii Ręki ul. J.A Komeńskiego 35 82-300 Elbląg	Admission room: 55 2394444 Operation ward: 55 2394432 Nurse’s office: 55 2394431; 55 2394503 Contact: 604 420 790 During the shift, please contact this phone number first: 604 420 790; 55 2394462	Elbląski Szpital Specjalistyczny z Przychodnią in Elbląg
6	Oddział Chirurgii Urazowo-Ortopedycznej z Pododdziałem Replantacji Kończyn, Mikrochirurgii i Chirurgii Ręki ul. Prusicka 53/55 55-100 Trzebnica	71 3120608 71 3120920 71 3121236 Please ask to speak with the on-call doctor	Szpital im. św. Jadwigi in Trzebnica

Klinika Chirurgii Urazowej i Chir. Ręki USK we Wrocławiu

Borowska 213,

11-400 Wrocław

601708931; 662232519;

Nurse’s office: 71 734 3880

USK in Wrocław

Rules of transport of patients with burns

Rules of transport of patients with burns

For transport eligible are patients with: II° burns exceeding 20% of body surface area; IIº burns exceeding 10% of old body surface area for children under 10 and adults above 50; III° burns in all age groups; respiratory burns; burns above IIº which include face, extremities, perineum; trauma patients with burns, stabilized in the other wards; electrical, chemical and other burns in accordance with local criteria for admission to the burns treatment center.
Each case of transport request for patient with burns is assessed individually by the medical dispatcher or doctor from Polish Medical Air Rescue, and requires a direct conversation with the doctor commissioning the transport. In making a decision about the transport, the following circumstances must be taken into the consideration: the existence of clear benefits to the patient in relation to the risks of transport, the patient’s clinical response to standard therapy of burns, patient’s condition in the period before the transportation. The final decision about the transportation is made by the Polish Medical Air Rescue.
Patients with burn sickness are required to present current results of gasometry, ionogram and morphology.

Patients with suspected respiratory tract burns should be intubated for transport in accordance with arrangements with a dispatcher or a medical doctor of Polish Medical Air Rescue.