Burn & Wound Center
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The Burn Center at St. John's Hospital is the
only burn center in southwest Missouri. As a Level 1 trauma center, our
trauma and burn physicians provide 24-hour coverage and lead our burn team
in providing excellent, high quality burn care for both pediatric and adult
patients.
St. John’s burn team includes six burn/trauma
surgeons, physician assistants, 17 highly trained registered nurses, 13 burn
technicians, physical and occupational therapists, nutrition support,
neurophysiologists, respiratory staff, child life specialists, social
services and pastoral care services.
Additional specialty staff work diligently with the burn team to take care
of patients who have all types of burns (thermal, chemical, scalds,
electrocutions), traumatic or complex wounds, or other serious life-
threatening skin diseases.
A new 10,000-square-foot
unit that opened in November 2007 replaces a 5,000-square-foot facility in
use since 1981. The Burn Center opened that year, following a generous
donation from Robert and Betty Killlian, who established a fund in memory of
their son Roger to support the treatment of burn patients. Roger died as a
result of injuries sustained in an explosion on Feb. 28, 1981.Today, more than 275
inpatients are treated and more than 4,000 outpatients visits take place
each year at the Burn Center, which cares for patients in all of southwest
Missouri and has patients referred from parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas.
The new center
has all private rooms with a state-of-the-art Intensive Care Unit providing
24-hour Critical Care monitoring and one-on-one nursing care. Highly
trained Nurses implement and closely supervise Cardiac Monitoring, fluid
replacement, wound care/hydrotherapy, as well as pay detailed attention to
pain control and infection prevention issues.
Patients may be referred to the Burn Center by a
primary care physician or emergency room physician. The Burn Center is open
24 hours a day, seven days a week to take referral calls or answer
questions. The Burn Center includes intensive care beds,
step-down or acute care beds and an outpatient burn and wound care center.
In
addition to treating patients,
St. John’s Burn
Center also offers a variety of burn and fire related educational programs. These
educational programs include classroom education on fire safety for school
children, fire safety and first aid courses, professional lectures and participation in health and safety fairs.