6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1015-4-308

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 24, December 25, 2024

Section 6 CCR 1015-4-308 - Burn Unit Referral Criteria

A burn unit may treat adults or children or both. The attending surgeon at a burn unit shall be consulted for any of the following burn injuries:

1. Partial thickness burn greater than 10% total body surface area (TBSA).

2. Burns that involve the face, hands, feet, genitalia, perineum, or major joints.

3. Third-degree burns in any age group.

4. Electrical burns, including lightning injury.

5. Chemical burns.

6. Inhalation injury.

7. Burn injury in patients with pre-existing medical disorders that could complicate management, prolong recovery, or affect mortality.

8. Any patients with burns and concomitant trauma (such as fractures) in which the burn injury poses the greatest risk of morbidity or mortality. In such cases, if the trauma poses the greater immediate risk, the patient may be initially stabilized in a trauma center before being transferred to a burn unit. Physician judgment will be necessary in such situations and should be in concert with the regional medical control plan and triage protocols.

9. Burned children in hospitals without qualified personnel or equipment for the care of children.

10. Burn injury in patients who will require special social, emotional, or long-term rehabilitative intervention.

6 CCR 1015-4-308

39 CR 02, January 25, 2016, effective 2/14/2016

40 CR 08, April 25, 2017, effective 5/15/2017

41 CR 22, November 25, 2018, effective 12/15/2018

42 CR 10, May 25, 2019, effective 6/14/2019

43 CR 09, May 10, 2020, effective 6/14/2020

44 CR 10, May 25, 2021, effective 7/1/2021