Role of albumins in burnt patients: its efficacy during intensive care. Addendum to the expert guidelines of the Consensus Conference, Paris December 15th 1995

In the burned patient, the critical threshold over which a correction of hypoalbuminemia is required has not yet been clearly defined. The level of 30 g.L-1 of albumin is usually admitted. According to the extent of the burn, albumin is not indicated in patients with a burn size below 15% of the total body surface. It is essential, from the very beginning of management in patients with a burn size over 50%. Its administration can be postponed to the 8th, 12th or even 24th hour in case of a burn size between 15 and 50%.

Published by Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation, 1996. The guideline itself is at the source linked here.

doi.org/10.1016/s0750-7658(96)89488-3