Burns resources for health professionals

Find a variety of information, resources and other organisations supporting burns patients, treatment and research.

Minor burns

• Application of Acticoat
• Burn Depth and Minor Burn Dressings

Useful resources

• First Aid and Transfer Dressings
• Fluid Resuscitation
• Outpatient Clinic Website

Allied health

• Patient information - discharge
• Burns care for ankle and foot burns
• Burns care and exercises for hand burns
• Oral and facial contractures
• Scar management silicone gel sheet
• Hand Burn Management Video (Victorian Adult Burns Service at the Alfred)
• Australian and New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA) Allied Health Guidelines

Journals

• Annals of Plastic Surgery
• Burns
• Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation 
• Journal of Trauma, Injury, and Critical Care
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Databases

• The Cochrane Library
• Joanna Briggs Institute Burns Node- JBI ConNECT
• MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health)
• Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ)
• NCBI PubMed

Burns camp and support groups

• Beyond Burns
• K.I.D.S. Foundation

Educational websites

• ACI NSW Agency for Clinical innovation Burn Injury Resources
• ACI NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation Burn Injury Network
• Australian New Zealand Burn Association
• Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists & Faculty of Pain Medicine "Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence' Fifth Edition 2020
• Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand
• Joanna Briggs Institute: JBI ConNECT+ - Burns Node
• Resident Orientation Manual - Acute Burn Management
• The Australian Immunisation Handbook
• Victoria Burns Unit
• American Burn Association
• Australian Wound Management Association
• British Burns Association
• International Society of Burn Injuries
• National Trauma Research Institute

Downloadable posters

• Application of Acticoat® Dressings in Burns
• Burn Depth and Minor Burn Dressings
• First Aid and Transfer Dressings
• Fluid Resuscitation
• State-wide Burns Referral Criteria

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