Burn and Reconstructive Services

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Burn and Reconstructive Services

As a designated Mississippi burn center and a Level III trauma and primary pediatric center, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Burn and Reconstructive Services is an acute care facility with the commitment, resources and specialties to provide comprehensive burn care. MBMC Burn and Reconstructive Services include a wide array of specialists and services including emergency medicine physicians, plastic surgeons, intensivists, hospitalists, pediatricians, anesthesiologists, physical and occupational therapists and other specialties.

Dr. Derek Culnan, medical director of MBMC Burn and Reconstructive Services, is a fellowship-trained and triple board-certified burn surgeon with more than a decade of experience treating burn and critical care patients. He leads a dedicated burn care team that specializes in the treatment of burns, wounds and hand injuries, as well as reconstructive plastic surgery and post-surgery care.

Services include:

Burn, hand and wound care

Acute burn and other injury care

  • Treatment of injuries caused by thermal, chemical and electrical sources
  • Treatment of any size and severity of injury
  • Skin grafting and skin substitutes
  • Laceration repairs
  • Limb salvage
  • Critical care

Necrotizing soft tissue infection care

  • Treatment of necrotizing fasciitis
  • Treatment of toxic epidermal necrolysis (TENS) and Stevens- Johnson syndrome (SJS)
  • Pressure ulcer surgeries

Hand injury treatment

Acute traumatic hand surgery

  • Reimplantation
  • Fracture repair
  • Tendon repair
  • Nerve repair
  • Revascularization

Reconstructive hand surgery

  • Hand and finger reconstruction
  • Tenolysis for adhered tendons Capsulotomies
  • Carpal tunnel surgery
  • Arthritis surgeries
  • Toe-to-thumb transfers
  • Nerve and tendon transfers

Reconstruction services

Acute plastic surgery care

  • Dermabrasion
  • Facial fracture repairs Limb salvage
  • Elective procedures

Reconstructive plastic surgery care

  • Breast
  • Cranial
  • Nerve
  • Tendon
  • Microvascular flap
  • Osteocutaneous
  • Targeted muscle reinnervation

Reconstructive burn care

  • Laser reconstruction
  • Contracture releases
  • Tissue expansion
  • Dermal matrices
  • Microvascular flap surgery

For more information on our burn and reconstructive services, please call 601-948-6262.

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