Abstract
Due to immunosuppression, burn patients are at risk for CMV-infection. By means of a retrospective questionnaire we evaluated the clinical rating and management of CMV-infection in German-speaking burn centers. 41 % of the participating burn centers considered the role of CMV-infection of overall minor importance, 41 % of importance only in intensive care burn patients, 18 % of overall great importance. 70 % of the participating burn centers do not perform CMV-screening at admission. More than 50 % of the participating burn centers consider application of CMV-negative human blood-derived products in CMV-seronegative individuals as essential. At present clinical importance of CMV-infection in burn patients can not be clearly determined. But further prospective studies utilizing recently developed diagnostics seem warranted to the potential influence of CMV-infection on morbidity and mortality in burn patients.
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