This project was led by Dr Anthony Holley, with collaboration across Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns CEntre and the Jamieson Trauma Institute.

In 2019 the team published findings of a clinical survey that recognised the vast differences in burn intensive care management across hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. The team recognised the need to develop a comprehensive Burns Critical Care Registry, that will ensure robust data collection and help inform burns management across Australasian hospitals.

Each year in Australia about 1% of the population sustains a burn injury. Although the majority of these are superficial, patients with severe burns (>20% of total body surface) experience considerable complications and medical conditions and sometimes do not survive.

There is a significant variation in care of severely burnt patient, which comes from the very little high-quality evidence to guide clinical practice for them.

Research studies on it can be challenging due to the small number of burnt patients in Australia and New Zealand per year. By collecting reliable information, the research team aimed to improve burns critical care practice and outcomes.

While the final outcomes of this project are yet to be reached, a survey of burns intensivists was performed to evaluate the data elements they would consider important to establish a burns registry.

The data evaluation from the survey is underway. The development of this registry that will be accessible for all clinicians across Australia and New Zealand will ultimately inform a more comprehensive healthcare for burns management and critical care.