**6. Treatment**

### **6.1 General principles**

Experts recommend that patients with more than 10% of their body area peeled off should be treated in an emergency care unit with doctors and nurses in a variety of specialties. Some patients are treated and cared for as burn patients. Many studies have shown that prompt admission to burn centers improves survival, while delay increases mortality [70, 71]. In the ward, room temperature should be maintained to reduce the patient's energy consumption. Energy consumption is increased to 40% of basal metabolic rate when the area of skin loss is 10%, increasing to 120% when the area of skin loss is 80% [72]. The patient's drug history should be taken, and possible tests performed to identify and discontinue the allergen. Limit the use of drugs during the treatment of SJS/TEN.
