Approximately 45,000 people are hospitalized for burn injuries each year and will benefit most from the knowledge gained in the Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) Provider Course. The quality of care during the first hours after a burn injury has a major impact on long-term outcome; however, most initial burn care is provided outside of the burn center environment. Understanding the dynamics of ABLS is crucial to providing the best possible outcome for the patient. The ABLS Provider Course is designed to provide physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs with the ability to assess and stabilize patients with serious burns during the first critical hours following injury and to identify those patients requiring transfer to a burn center. The course is not designed to teach comprehensive burn care, but rather to focus on the first 24 post injury hours.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to provide the initial primary treatment to those who have sustained burn injuries and manage common complications that occur within the first 24-hours postburn.
Identify and establish priorities of treatment. Manage the airway and support ventilation. Initiate, monitor and adjust fluid resuscitation. Apply correct methods of physiological monitoring.
Organize and conduct the inter-hospital transfer of a seriously injured patient with burns. Identify priority of care for patients with burns in a burn mass casualty incident.