title: Initial burn management in the primary care situation.
abstract: Each year more than 150,000 people in Australia and New Zealand experience burning of sufficient severity for them to seek medical help, with 400 people dying annually. Primary care involves careful identification of burn healing potential and severity of injury. Major burns are best managed by regional Burn Units. The assessment, early management and burns unit transfer indications are addressed in this article.
authors.affiliation: Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Griffin
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Leitch
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care