Title II: Sanitary equipment

The burns treatment facility includes at least : 1° A technical area for receiving and conditioning patients ; 2° One or more full-time hospitalisation sectors comprising : – at least 6 beds adapted for burn patients, in individual rooms equipped with an air treatment and control system reducing the risk of airborne microbial contamination, dedicated to resuscitation of burn patients, – At least as many beds for burn patients as…

The burns unit has access to an anaesthesia and outpatient surgery unit on the same site for patient follow-up.

I. – The medical team of the burns treatment facility comprises at least : 1° A qualified doctor, specialist or competent in anaesthesia-intensive care, or qualified specialist in anaesthesiology-intensive care surgery ; 2° A qualified surgeon, specialist or competent in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery; II. – The medical team also includes, when the scale of the activity so requires or to meet exceptional needs: 1° One or more qualified…

Continuity of care is ensured in the burns treatment facility by at least one doctor who is a member of the medical team meeting the conditions mentioned in 1° of I and II of article D. 6124-155. However, the permanence and continuity of care may be ensured, outside of the daytime service, by an intensive care anaesthetist or an intensive care doctor from the establishment who does not belong to…

The burns treatment facility has, within its premises or in the immediate vicinity, a room where doctors can be on call 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

Under the responsibility of a health executive, the paramedical team working with patients requiring intensive care specific to severe burns includes at least : 1° During the day shift, one nurse and one care assistant for every two patients ; 2° During the night shift, two nurses and one care assistant for five patients; 3° During the day service, every day of the year, a masseur-physiotherapist; A psychologist must be…