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The Burn Fund provides staff training and pays for burn survivor support in all hospitals around the province.
Here is a list of some of the items suggested for equipment and educational material required for each Burn Treatment Centre in the province. Please contact the Burn Fund if you wish to enquire about purchasing any of the items for your local hospital’s Provincial Burn Treatment Centre. Contact Tony Burke at 604-436-5617 or Margo Bates Publicity at 604-536-9501.
- Warming Cupboards: for blankets
- Fluid warmers.
- Cautery Machines (for escharotomy, The process of cutting through the burned, dead skin to allow normal circulation to resume. Mostly done in burns that completely encircle an arm, leg or the chest). These machines are used to stop bleeding when making incisions through burned, dead tissue to live tissue (burned tissue or eschar can constrict the circulation). The BCPFF Burn & Plastic Surgery Unit at VGH uses Codman Cautery Machines, which are $10,000 each. Includes generator, cart, and footplate.
- Bear Huggers (disposable blankets attached to a heating machine). Bear Huggers are approximately $ 2,300 each. The disposable blankets are approximately $190 for a case of 10. These are an ideal way to keep patients warm.
- Stretcher capable of taking x-rays through it.
- Exam lights.
- Burn Management manual (written by BCPFF Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit, the updated version will be available on line soon), electrical burn poster (from BC Hydro), burn texts.
- Flushing equipment for chemical burns.
- Dressing cart specific for burns.
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