Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Acute pain management" and "Society guideline links: Chronic pain management" and "Society guideline links: Nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) in adults" and "Society guideline links: Nutrition support (parenteral and enteral nutrition) in infants and children" and "Society guideline links: Acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome in adults" and "Society guideline links: General issues of trauma management in adults".)
International
●International Society for Burn Injury (ISBI): Practice guidelines for burn care, part 2 (2018)
●ISBI: Practice guidelines for burn care (2016)
●World Health Organization (WHO): A plan for burn prevention and care (2008)
●ISBI: Guidelines for dealing with disasters involving large numbers of extensive burns (2006)
Canada
●Canadian Dermatology Association (CDA): Position statement on sun protection and sunscreen use (2020)
United States
●ABA: Guideline for burn care under austere conditions – Special care topics (2017)
●ABA: Guidelines for burn care under austere conditions – Surgical and nonsurgical wound management (2016)
●American College of Surgeons (ACS): Statement on older adult burn prevention (2016)
●WMS: Practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of lightning injuries, update (2014)
●ABA: Practice guidelines burn shock resuscitation (2008)
●ABA/ACS: Guidelines for the operation of burn centers (2007)
●Practice guidelines for the management of electrical injuries (2006)
Europe
●European Resuscitation Council (ERC): Guidelines on cardiac arrest in special circumstances (2021)
●Cyanide poisoning by fire smoke inhalation – A European expert consensus (2013)
●Pediatric cyanide poisoning by fire smoke inhalation – A European expert consensus (2013)
●European first aid guidelines (2007)
United Kingdom
●National Health System (NHS) Scotland: Care of Burns in Scotland (COBIS) – Clinical guidelines
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Medical technologies guidance on moorLDI2-BI – A laser doppler blood flow imager for burn wound assessment (2011, updated 2017)
●NICE: Guideline on sunlight exposure – Risks and benefits (2016)
●Consensus on the prehospital approach to burns patient management (2004)
Australia-New Zealand
●New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation (NSW ACI): Burn transfer guidelines, 4th edition (amended 2020)
●NSW ACI: Child life therapy – Burn patient management: Clinical guide (amended 2020)
●NSW ACI: Clinical guidelines for burn patient management, 4th edition (2020)
●NSW ACI: Clinical guidelines for escharotomy for burn patients, 2nd edition (amended 2019)
●NSW ACI: Clinical guidelines for minor burn management, 4th edition (amended 2019)
●NSW ACI: Burn physiotherapy and occupational therapy guidelines, 1st edition (amended 2017)
●NSW ACI: Clinical practice guidelines for speech pathology burn patient management (2011)
●NSW ACI: Clinical practice guidelines on nutrition burn patient management (2011)
●NSW ACI: Clinical practice guidelines on social work – Paediatric burn patient management (2011)
●NSW ACI: Clinical practice guidelines on social work (adults) burn patient management (2011)
Japan