American Burn Association Criteria for Transfer

• 2nd degree burns >10% body surface area
• 3rd degree burns

• Burns to face, hands, feet, genitalia, perineum
• Electrical burns (including lightning injury)
• Chemical burns
• Inhalation injury
• Patients with pre-existing conditions
• Circumferential third degree burns to extremity or chest
• Hospitals without qualified personnel or equipment for care of burn injured children