Burn Care St. Mary Medical Center works in conjunction with the University of Chicago to provide comprehensive burn care.
Every effort is made to provide burn care services close to home.
Structured emergency procedures ensure that all patients are treated appropriately and effectively, according to individual burn conditions. Any patient requiring intensive care is stabilized and immediately transferred to the University of Chicago. In cooperation with the patient s physician, we look at the physical, mental and social factors that can aid in healing, and develop an individualized treatment or rehabilitation program that puts patients on the shortest path to recovery. Electrical trauma most commonly affects electricians and linemen, construction and transportation workers, laborers, and workers of other occupations where accidental contact with overhead powerlines, underground cables, or residential wiring may occur. Electrical or lightning injury, however, can strike people from all walks of life, children as well as adults.