Burn Care at The Children's Hospital
The Children’s Hospital’s Burn Program is the only program in the state dedicated to caring for pediatric burn patients. For more than 30 years this fully integrated program has taken a team approach to treating all aspects of a burn injury, from prevention to long-term healing. The Burn Program strives to educate children and their families about how to prevent burns, and specially trained and certified Burn Team members are here to treat the entire scope of a burn injury if your child has been burned. And we treat not only your child, but the entire family, with the support to help you through what can be a traumatic experience for families.
Types of Burns and Skin Injuries We Treat
- Thermal burns
- Electrical burns
- Chemical injuries
- Exfoliative dermatoses
- Erythema Multiforme
- Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome (TENS)
- Phemphigus
- Scaled skin syndrome
- Purpura Fulmanins
- Freezing injuries
- Intravenous infiltration
- Pyoderma gangremosum
- Traumatic wounds
Burn Prevention
The Children’s Hospital is committed to preventing burn injuries in children, and strives to educate children, parents and health-care providers about the most common ways children get burned, and ways to prevent such injuries.
Specialty Programs and Clinics
Juvenile Fire Starter Program
This program evaluates and treats children with risk factors for continued fire setting, and provides group counseling to the child and parents regarding identifications of behaviors and interventions for behavior changes. Referrals to the program come primarily from fire departments, psychotherapists, schools and parents.
Outpatient Clinics
Each outpatient clinic appointment provides patients access to the entire Burn Team, including a burn surgeon, surgical resident, occupational therapist, physical therapist, therapeutic recreation/child life specialist, and nursing staff, who offer evaluation and management of wounds and scars, and functional assessment for rehabilitation. Members of the Burn Team work with you and your child to teach appropriate burn wound care (pre and post-operatively). Parents are continuously involved in their child’s treatment both in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
The Cheley/Children's Hospital Burn Camp was the first of its kind in the nation, and is designed to continue the long-term healing process once patients have left the hospital. For more than two decades, summer and winter camp experiences have offered burn patients ages 8 to 18 the opportunity to promote continued physical and social rehabilitation. These camps are staffed with multi-disciplinary medical team members and outdoor specialists. A family camp experience is provided in conjunction with Regions Hospital Children’s Burn Center (MN) and Shriners Burn Hospital (TX). These programs serve the rehabilitative needs for burn-injured children nationally and internationally.
