Organization of specialized assistance to the patients with seriously thermal burn in Primorsky region

Abstract

The review examines the organization of specialized medical care for victims having burn injury in Primorsky Region. Thermal injury continues to occupy a significant place in the structure of domestic and industrial injuries in the Russian Federation. Every year, more than 300 calls about patients having thermal damage are received in Primorsky Region TCDM. For five years (from 2017 to 2021), specialists of the Primorsky TCDM made 178 visits to regional medical institutions, 160 seriously burned people were delivered to the specialized department by ground and air transport. There is still a need for round-the-clock collection of medical and sanitary information about the severely burned patients in medical institutions of Primorsky Territory and the organization of interaction with a specialized department. The Regional TCDM organized timely evacuation of patients having deep thermal traumas to the burn unit of FEDMC. It allowed performing surgical treatment tactics, including effective early removal of necrotic tissues. An analysis of appeals to the dispatcher's office of the Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine regarding severe thermal injury, as well as a statistical analysis of victims from remote areas of the Primorsky Territory delivered to the burn department in Vladivostok were conducted. It is emphasized that timely transportation of patients having severe burn injuries is the first step in the system of active treatment of victims which allows conducting early surgical treatment and reducing the number of complications, and improving treatment results.