[Intensive care for burn patients]

Improvement in intensive care procedures allowed patients with extensive burns to survive, leading to develop new technics for cutaneous coverage. During initial stage of burn, internal fluid shifts can impair hemodynamic function and lead to large fluid infusion which has to be monitored. Afterwards, nutritional care by artificial nutrition, and prevention of infection, especially cutaneous infection by antibacterial topical creams, are the principal factors which improve vital prognosis.