中国重症烧伤的救治起步于1958年。到20世纪80年代，在中国烧伤医务工作者的共同努力下，建立了具有鲜明中国特色的烧伤救治体系，治疗效果良好。近年来重症医学科的建立和飞速发展对烧伤重症治疗产生了重大而深远的影响。大型烧伤中心的烧伤监护室大多发展成为现代意义上的烧伤重症加强治疗病房(ICU)。烧伤工作者融合烧伤救治经验和重症医学的理论和实践，开展了大量烧伤重症理论研究与临床工作，取得了较好的救治效果。同时也有部分中小型烧伤科的烧伤监护室并未得到升级，重大事故的成批重症烧伤患者有时也会收入综合ICU进行救治。因此，促进重症烧伤的学科发展和进一步完善烧伤ICU的设置和管理成为热点问题。

Rescure and treatment of severe burn patients in China started in 1958. By the 1980s, with the joint efforts of Chinese burn medical workers, many original achievements were world famous, burn medical workers established complete burn treatment systems with distinctive Chinese characteristics in line with China′s national conditions, the therapeutic effect was good. In recent years, establishment of critical care department and rapid development, had a significant and far-reaching impact to severe burns treatment. Burn care units in some large burn departments develop into burn intensive care unit(ICU) in modern sense, burn medical workers combining burn treatment experience with the theory and practice of critical care medicine, a large number of studies on severe burns have been carried out, good therapeutic effects have been achieved. At the same time, many burn care units in small and medium-sized burn departments have not been upgraded, severe mass burn patients in major accidents sometimes will be admitted to comprehensive ICU for rescue and treatment. Therefore, promoting the discipline development of severe burns and further improving the setting and management of burn ICU has become a hot issue.