App Profile: Mersey Burns

Mersey Burns is a free clinical tool for calculating burn area percentages, prescribing fluids using Parkland, background fluids and recording patients' details. It was developed by specialist and consultant plastic surgeons and experts in burns management.

Mersey Burns is regulated in the UK by the MHRA and is CE marked for conformance as a medical device.

In 2011 Mersey Burns won an Excellence in Innovation prize at the NHS North West Health Innovation Awards. It has been presented at the British Burns Association and the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and covered by BBC online, TV, radio, the Daily Mirror, the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool and countless technology and medical professional news sources.