The Centre for Burns can help by its means (material, technical and personal) in the treatment of burns with exten- sive and deep losses of the skin cover and other tissue structures and in some affections with a different etiology (non-thermic affections). Indicated for admission are, in particular, extensive exfoliative affections – Stevens- Johnson’s syndrome (SJS), Lyell’s syndrome – toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS), deep skin and tissue affections associated with fulminant purpura (PF), possibly other affec- tions (epidermolysis bullosa, posttraumatic avulsions etc.). The similarity with burn injuries with loss of the skin cover grade II is typical, in particular in exfoliative affections with a need for adequate fluid replacement in the acute stage and aseptic surgical treatment of the affected area from the onset of the disease. In conditions lead- ing to full thickness skin loss, in addition to general treatment rapid plastic surgical int erventions dominate.

        Key words: non-thermic affection of the skin cover, Stevens-Johnson sy, Lyell sy, staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, meningococcal sepsis