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For burns procedures, blood and blood products should be immediately available.^11,15,18,19

Advice from a haematologist should be available at all times.

Appropriate equipment should be available to enable prone positioning of patients.¹³

Psychology and physiotherapy should be available to help manage the consequences of complex repetitive anaesthesia, and of the sedation and analgesia requirements of burn-injured patients.^11,36

There should be access to an acute pain service.^11,22,37,38

There should be adequate, age-appropriate critical care facilities, including high-dependency and intensive care units fulfilling national standards, to allow the timely admission of patients who require these services following surgery, including those with resuscitation burns and undergoing free-flap surgery.^6,11,25,39

Burn care services should have access to an appropriately sized, temperature and humidity controlled theatre at all times, with a maximum temperature setting of at least 30^oC.^11,19

A burns theatre should be located in immediate proximity to any service providing critical care for burn patients.¹¹

A dedicated burns theatre should be adequately stocked and resourced. Theatre anaesthetic equipment and transport monitoring should be compatible with that used in the critical care rooms. Single use patient items are preferred, and protocol-based cleaning is needed between cases.¹⁵

Anaesthetic led sedation for dressing changes should take place in rooms equipped with monitoring, piped medical gases, scavenging (where needed), suction, an anaesthetic machine, and drug-infusion pumps.