The variety of pathologies in burn disease still poses a problem of extensive burns in the group of diseases with high mortality and is a continuous therapeutic problem. The emergence of modern surgical dressings and instruments has changed the way of acting and thinking in the surgical treatment of these enormous body injuries. Our actions in this respect bring tangible results in the form of reduced mortality and faster recovery. The work aims at comparing groups of patients treated before and after 2005. At that time, modern technologies, like silver dressings and the VersaJet knife, were implemented, which to date are ones of the basic tools in the surgical treatment of extensive body burns .