Burn
Injury Reports
Health care professionals who initially treat or attend to a person with the
following injuries shall make certain a report of the injury is made promptly to
the Division of Fire and Life Safety.
- second or third degree burns to five percent or more of a
patient's body
- a burn to a patient's upper respiratory tract or laryngeal edema due to the
inhalation of super-heated air
This report shall be submitted within three working days after the person is
treated.
Health care professionals include emergency medical technicians certified under
AS 18.08, health aide, physician, nurse, mobile intensive care paramedic, and
physician assistant, but does not include a practitioner of religious healing.
A person who, in good faith, makes a report under this section, or who
participates in judicial proceedings related to a report under this section, is
immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred as
a result of making such a report or participating in the judicial proceedings.
Burn Injury Reports:
For further information please contact:
Alaska Burn Injury
5700 E. Tudor Road
Anchorage, Alaska 99507
Phone: (907) 269-5625
Fax: (907) 269-0102
