MUSC Children's Hospital - Pediatric Burn Center

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Pediatric Burn Center

As South Carolina's only pediatric burn referral center, MUSC Children's Hospital provides specialized burn treatment to children who have suffered burns and offers community education to help prevent burns from occurring.

MUSC's pediatric burn team has treated more than 350 hospitalized children over the past five years and provides more than 400 outpatient visits per year in a facility that has been ranked as the top children's hospitals in the Southeast.

The treatment of children with burns requires input from a number of health care disciplines. Each child is cared for by up to three attending physicians, a burn nurse specialist, child life therapist, pharmacist, nutritionist, occupational and physical therapists and social workers. Additional specialists are available to meet the specific needs of each child, including critical care and psychiatric services.

Our team works closely with patients and their families to facilitate the healing process, both physically and mentally. Pediatric nurses, trained in burn care, provide around-the-clock care. Our physical and occupational therapists assist with wound care and help our patients overcome limitations left by wounds. Using play therapy, our child life specialist assesses the patient's developmental needs and provides encouraging words on how to cope with the impact of the burn.

While our burn team manages the spectrum of burns from minor to severe, approximately 80 percent of cases seen by our team are burns of less than 10 percent total body surface area.

We combine pediatric surgery and pediatric burn care, an approach that gives specialized age-specific care in serving the needs of our young patients. "The care we give our patients focuses on the child's quality of life during and after hospitalization and outpatient care," said Jill Evans, RN, MSN, who coordinates the program.

Our burn team is also active in burn research projects, including clinical work on the use of temporary skin substitutes and identifying outcomes of scald burn injuries.

Outpatient Burn Clinic
Our outpatient pediatric burn clinic is located on the 4th floor of Rutledge Tower. We see patients Tuesdays through Fridays and have a physician's assistant in the clinic on Fridays. If you are a new patient interested in scheduling an appointment please call MUSC Health Connection at (843) 792-1414 or toll-free at 1-800-424-MUSC. If you are an established patient, please call (843) 792-8999 to schedule an appointment.

For more information on the Burned Children's Fund, please visit www.scburnedchildrensfund.org.

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Health Library - Burns
Support Groups - Camp Can Do
Programs - Burned Children's Fund
News Room - MUSC Children's Hospital Pediatric Burn Team offers comprehensive care