The SGH Burns Centre is a tertiary referral facility and will only accept burned patients requiring specialised care, and these are confined to patients with the following injuries :

• burns in adults > 15% TBSA or in children > 10% requiring fluid resuscitation
• burns involving special areas like the face, hands and perineum
• burns with an inhalational component / respiratory component
• burns resulting from electricity, chemicals or molten metals
• delayed or neglected burns with a deep-dermal or full-thickness component requiring surgery

Strict admission criteria limit unneccesary admissions to minimize cross-contamination and to enable medical and nursing staff to concentrate on major burns patients and those patients who are critically-ill.

The Burns Centre admits patients through the following sources :

• the hospital’s Accident / Emergency Department following consultation and review by the
  on-call Plastic Surgery Resident and / or Registrar
• other hospital’s Accident / Emergency Department / ward (including private sector, semi-government restructured, and foreign) following telephone-consultation with the on-call Plastic Surgical Registrar and / or attending Plastic Surgeon; transport and medical escort of the patient is provided by source hospital
• direct from scene of injury following heli-casevac via the hospital’s Accident / Emergency Department.