California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 5 - Licensing and Certification of Health Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Clinics, and Referral Agencies
Chapter 1 - General Acute Care Hospitals
Article 1 - Definitions
Section 70018 - Critical Burn
Universal Citation: 22 CA Code of Regs 70018
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Critical burn means any one or more of the following types of burns:
(1) Second degree burns exceeding 30 percent of the body surface.
(2) Third degree burns of the face, hands, feet and/or genitals.
(3) Third degree burns exceeding 10 percent of the body surface.
(4) Burns complicated by respiratory tract injury, major soft tissue injury or fractures.
(5) Electrical burns.
(6) Any combination of second and third degree burns which in the aggregate poses a medical problem equivalent in seriousness to (1) through (5).
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