The Burn Center comprises the adult unit at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and the pediatric unit located at the Johns Hopkins Children Center. The Johns Hopkins Burn Center and the Division of Burn Surgery provides a comprehensive, nationally recognized program of care for adult and pediatric burn injuries. Our goal focuses on returning patients to their highest level of function by attending to the physical, psychological, social and vocational aspects of their lives. The Johns Hopkins Burn Center opened in 1968. The adult unit is verified by the American Burn Association and the Children's unit is certified by the Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems and cares for all burn victims under the age of fifteen. Expert care from the Division's burn and reconstructive surgeons, coupled with extensive clinical and basic science research, makes the Johns Hopkins Burn Center a major referral center for burn victims. Conditions treated at the Burn Center include acute burn injury (flame, scald, electrical and chemical injuries), late effects of burn injury (the surgical treatment of burn scar deformity and burn scar dysfunction), and wounds (toxic epidermal necrolysis, necrotizing fasciitis, chronic ulcers and pressure sores). The complex nature of burns and their physical and psychological aspects require a multidisciplinary team of providers which include experts in plastic and reconstructive surgery, physical therapy, nursing, psychology, nutrition, social work and case management. |
