The UC Irvine Regional Burn Center was among the first burn care facilities established in the nation. Over the years, it has grown in stature and reputation due to the number of patients served annually and the active research program maintained at the center. Each year, we treat more than 600 patients--one-third of them children---for severe burns caused by fire, chemicals, electricity or abrasions.

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Multidisciplinary Team Approach

The immediate goal in treating burn survivors is the prevention of complications such as organ dysfunction, malnutrition or shock. The burn team includes many of the nation’s most respected and highly trained experts in the field. Our surgeons, critical care physicians, nurses, pulmonologists and infectious disease specialists have the clinical expertise to address these challenges, as well as other medical concerns. In addition, skilled occupational and physical therapists, dietitians, psychologists and social workers assist burn survivors throughout their rehabilitation and recovery.

Pediatric intensive care physicians oversee the treatment of children admitted to the burn center. Staff nurses have also received extensive pediatric training in this highly specialized area of burn care. A play therapist is available to help children adjust physically and psychologically to special concerns that may result from their injuries.

All burn team members are dedicated to achieving complete physical and emotional healing for patients.

Highest Quality Care

The UC Irvine Regional Burn Center is verified by the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association. This means our center meets rigorous criteria for treatment capabilities and performance, resulting in the highest quality patient care.

Comprehensive Approach

Our goal is to treat and heal patients during the shortest possible inpatient stay, followed by outpatient therapy. The UC Irvine Regional Burn Center has consistently received recognition from the international medical community as a leader in all aspects of burn care, including the critically important area of pain control. Techniques are constantly being refined to help patients recover quickly and comfortably.

A Leading Innovator

The UC Irvine Regional Burn Center maintains an extensive ongoing research program to develop new technology and treatment techniques. Because of our worldwide standing in trauma/critical care medicine and burn care, UC Irvine Medical Center offers patients many breakthrough therapies and treatments unavailable elsewhere.

One of the many significant accomplishments of UC Irvine researchers was the development of BioBrane®, a synthetic material that serves as a temporary skin substitute. In addition, our researchers enhanced burn treatment through the  use of cadaver skin and immunosuppression techniques. Most recently, the center received national recognition for the development of a device that uses ultrasound to determine the depth and severity of burns without having to touch a critically injured patient.

Community Outreach

UC Irvine Medical Center works with the Orange County Burn Association to provide a burn recovery group for patients, their families and friends. In an ongoing effort to educate other medical professionals about the highly specialized area of burn care, we also offer Advanced Burn Life Support classes.