Articles Posted in The Burn Team

Speech and language therapists and pathologists: they help the patient with swallowing issues, they can help with vocal cord issues, and communication needs (if the patient can’t speak) and they can help teach the patient with a tracheotomy how to speak. Respiratory therapist: they manage and administer oxygen, breathing treatments…

Taking care of a burned patient in a hospital requires a team effort. This team is called the burn team which is a group of people with different specialties who work together to help the patient and his/her family. The members of the burn team with some variation from one…