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Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) resulting in burn injuries present unique challenges. Burn management benefits from specialist skills, expert knowledge, and timely availability of specialist
resources. With burn MCIs occurring globally, and wide variance in existing burn care capacity, the
need to strengthen burn care capability is evident. Although some high- income countries have wellestablished
disaster management plans, including burn specific plans, many do not the majority of
countries where burn mass casualty events occur are without such established plans. Developing
globally relevant recommendations is a first step in addressing this deficit and increasing preparedness to deal with such disasters.
Global burn experts were invited to a succession of Technical Working Group on burns (TWGB) meetings.
I will present the guidelines developed by TWGB. |
