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Burn
Center
The
Burn Center provides comprehensive care for adults and
children with thermal injuries, electrical burns, chemical
injury, frostbite, toxic epidermal necrolysis, inhalation
injury and complex soft tissue infections.
A
multidisciplinary team, which includes resuscitation,
pulmonary support, wound management, nutritional support
and rehabilitation personnel, provide care in the Burn
Center.
The
Burn Center has a staff of about 70, including nurses,
patient care technicians, service coordinators and service
associates. The Burn Center is one of the busiest in
the Midwest, treating 400 patients annually in the hospital,
and another 2,000 patients each year in its clinic.
About 40 percent of these patients are children.
The
Burn Center is based on the 7th floor of Loyola University
Hospital. It contains 21 beds, including 10 intensive
care beds and an 11 bed step-down unit. The unit also
houses an expanded hydrotherapy area for cleaning and
dressing wounds, and a rehabilitation area where physical
and occupational therapists can work with patients.
An outpatient burn clinic is open five days a week to
provide follow-up care. A 17 bed step-down trauma unit
on the same floor as the Burn Center offers additional
bed capacity to accomodate any overflow of burn patients.
Special
Services:
The
Burn Center is involved in research on post-burn immunosuppression,
wound healing, burn induced coagulation disorders and
nutritional support. The research is integrated with
research efforts at Loyola University Health System's
(Loyola) Burn & Shock Trauma Institute.
The
Burn Center was awarded verification by the American
College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Burn Association
(ABA). This recognition is only granted to those programs
that have met and exceeded the ACS and ABA standards
and review.
Locations
and Contacts
A full spectrum of burn services is available
at:
Loyola
University Hospital
If you would like to make an appointment or need assistance to find an appropriate physician, please call us at (888) LUHS-888.
Related
Links
Burn
& Shock Trauma Institute Web site 
Physical
medicine & rehabilitation
Trauma/Burn/EMS
Director
Richard
L. Gamelli, MD, FACS
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