Burn care
Burn care focuses on the treatment and minimization of injuries caused by heat, chemicals, friction, electricity or radiation. Care can also include specialized reconstructive services.
Burn center in San Antonio
Burns and wounds can be severely limiting for both adults and children. We work to ensure you don't have to live with pain and discomfort.
Methodist Hospital Burn and Reconstructive Center offers nonsurgical treatments, repair and reconstructive surgeries, critical care and outpatient services for burns, wounds, complex skin disorders and injuries that result from exposure to flames, chemicals, electricity and scalds.
Leading-edge burn care facilities
Methodist Hospital Burn and Reconstructive Center includes specially equipped emergency burn rooms with special climate controls to regulate temperature and humidity for burn patients who often have difficulty maintaining body temperature.
We provide all follow-up care to burn patients at the outpatient burn clinic, which is conveniently located on the Methodist Hospital campus. The clinic is equipped for short and long-term rehabilitation, providing the best possible outcomes for patients.
Types of burns we treat
The capabilities within the Methodist Hospital Burn and Reconstructive Center include treatment for all burn types:
- Chemical
- Electrical
- Friction/road rash
- Frostbite
- Inhalation
- Radiation
- Thermal
- Flame
- Scald
Types of wounds we treat
We treat all wounds, including:
- Abscesses
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Facial injuries
- Hidradenitis
- Lacerations
- Medication reactions
- MOHS reconstruction
- Non-healing surgical sites
- Peripheral vascular wounds
- Pressure ulcers
- Skin tears
- Venous stasis wounds
Treatment options
- Hyperbaric oxygen treatment
- Treatment for complex wounds
- Skin and soft tissue disorder treatment