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Outreach and Prevention
- Health Fairs
- Burn Buster Blast (NW Fire), Tucson Electric Power (TEP), Pima Community
College, Girl Scouts.
- Sparky - Pre-school, kinder, 1st, 2nd grades
- Media Relations
- Fireplace safety, treadmill alert, sunburn
prevention, Burn Awareness Week.
- Youth Burn Contract
- Prevention education with individuals and families.
Research and Innovation
- Recognition by the American Burn Association (ABA):
- Low level light laser treatment and research by
Medical Director, Jeffrey Nelson, MD
- Pediatric hand burn protocol.
- Maggot therapy - Karl Hekimian, MD
- Recognition by the International Society of Burn
Injuries (ISBI)—Pediatric hand burn protocol.
Teaching
- Pre-Hospital Lectures
- Tucson Fire Department (TFD), University of Arizona
(U of A) College of Medicine, University Medical Center
(UMC) ED, El Dorado
Hospital, Outlying Hospitals, U of A Nursing, Pima
Community College (PCC)
Nursing, Central AZ Nursing, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) Safety Day.
- Preceptorships:
- University of Arizona ED Residents, Student Nurses,
Paramedic Students, etc.
Rehabilitation
- Psychology, Child Life Specialty, Nursing, Occupational
Therapy (O.T.), Physical Therapy (P.T.),
Social Work
- Camp Courage
- Burn Survivor Forums—Phoenix Society
Burn and Wound Care Program
Carondelet St. Mary’s Burn and Wound Care Program provides
non-discriminatory, quality health care while respecting the
life and dignity of each person. We are committed to the total
care of the burn and wound care patient through a
multidisciplinary team approach providing for the acute
treatment, education and rehabilitation of all burn survivors
and complex wound care patients. The Carondelet St. Mary’s Burn
and Wound Care Program
- Is a regional specialty center and a community-wide
resource for referral, treatment, rehabilitation and
education related to burn and complex wound management for
the entire southwestern Arizona region.
- Provides expert, comprehensive burn and wound care in a
relaxed, nurturing environment in order to promote optimal
health, satisfaction and life function.
- Supports regional healthcare facilities, emergency
medical and fire services, schools, businesses, and
community leaders through the most current prevention
information and education.
- Provides a safe, competency-based practice environment
with career path advancement opportunities for all staff,
encouraging lifelong learning through annual performance
review, practical and technical education and community
outreach and prevention programs.
Scope of Services
The scope of specialized services provided to patients admitted
to Carondelet St. Mary’s Burn and Wound Care Program include,
but are not limited to:
- Complete adult burn treatment
- Pediatric burn treatment
- Steven’s Johnson Syndrome and TENS
- Cancer/late trauma reconstruction including free
flaps/tissue transfer
- Arterial and venous vascular ulcers/limb salvage
- Neurotrophic ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Chronic non-healing wounds
Inpatient Services
Burn and wound care is provided in our eight-bed inpatient unit
and four beds in the ICU, as well as an outpatient burn and
wound area.
The inpatient unit cares for adults 18 years or greater and
stays at full capacity year round.
Outpatient Services
The outpatient area can treat up to six patients at a time in
individual hydrotherapy showers that provide cleansing and
mechanical debridement to the affected site. These advanced
hydrotherapy units keep the infection rate below 1% and ensure
the highest standard of burn and wound care found anywhere in
the country. The outpatient area performs over 1,000 treatments
a month and cares for patients from birth on up.
The outpatient staff is also available for consultation and
wound care on acute inpatients located elsewhere in the
hospital. The inpatient unit is staffed to provide care 24
hours, 7 days per week, while the outpatient care area is open
from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., 7 days per week.
Burn Center Personnel
Optimal burn and wound care utilizes a team of professionals
highly skilled and educated in the specialty of burn and wound
care. It includes assessment, problem identification,
evaluation, and implementation. The team consists of:
- a medical director
- additional surgeons trained in burn and wound care and
plastic surgery
- nurses
- a nurse manager who oversees the operation of the unit
- a clinical nurse coordinator who leads in the
instruction of the nursing staff
- community health providers such as paramedics and
medical students.
Also, integral to the team, a clinical psychologist who
provides counseling and instructs coping skills to patients and
families, a clinical dietician knowledgeable in the intricate
dietary and supplemental needs of patients healing from burns
and wounds, patient care technicians who assist in the
debridement, treatment and care of patients, physical
therapists, occupational therapists, a wound care team of nurse
specialists who deliver complex wound treatment throughout the
hospital, a child life specialist who uses appropriate play and
distraction techniques to de-traumatize treatment and
hospitalization and assists in school re-entry, prevention
programs, and Camp Courage, a social worker, chaplains,
authorization technicians, respiratory therapists, pharmacists,
and a housekeeping staff committed to maintaining the essential
level of sterilization necessary for infection control.
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