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How to Plan Burn Services
One out of 200 persons, in a given community, will endure a thermal injury per year, this calculations lead us to some 5,000 burn injuries per million population. Following this arithmetic line one should designed one specialized burn bed per every 30 thousand users in an influence area of any given hospital. This considerations are general and valid for countries with poor socio-economical development who share common burn risk factors. The risk factor variables and vulnerability to accidents in poor developed countries are not well known, this fact makes very difficult to calculate the real needs of burn services in a given health service.
