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Advanced Burn Life Support (Room 3C)

23 Feb 17
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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. Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) programs provide knowledge for immediate care of the burn patient up to the first 24 hours post injury. ABLS programs support emergency preparedness, mass casualty incidents focusing on triage, burn survivability, prioritizing transport of patients and patient treatment. Understanding the dynamics of ABLS is crucial to providing the best possible outcome for the patient. The ABLS course is designed to provide physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, 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. ABLS education helps first responders and health care providers learn how to assess severity of the burn injury, provide appropriate treatment and determine need for transfer to a burn center. Students successfully completing this class earn 8 Category 1 EMS CEU hours.  There is a 25 student limit for this class.