The 2022 Trauma Webinar Series Part Three: Acute Burn Care - The First 24 Hours

Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, The 2022 Trauma Webinar Series – Part Three: Acute Burn Care - The First 24 Hours, 5/26/2022 12:00:00 PM - 5/26/2025 1:00:00 PM,

This learning activity which will provide an overview of the skills necessary to assess and initially care for a thermally injured patient. The session will address the establishment of resuscitation plans, initial burn wound management, and appropriate referral to a burn center. 

Presenter
Mary-Liz Bilodeau, MS, RN, ACNPC
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Department of Surgery, Division of Burns, Massachusetts General Hospital,  Boston, Massachusetts

Learning Outcome
At the conclusion of this learning activity, (at least 75% of) participants will be able to describe the appropriate clinical intervention for thermally injured patients during the first twenty-four hours of care. 

Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this activity have reported NO financial relationship(s)* with ineligible companies**.

* A “financial relationship" includes employee, researcher (named as the PI), consultant, advisor, speaker, independent contractor (including contracted research), royalties or patent beneficiary, executive role, and/or an ownership interest (not including stocks owned in a managed portfolio).

** An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Bibliographic Material

1. Total Burn Care, 5th Ed, (2017) Herndon, DN, Ed
2. Friedstat J, Brown DA, Levi B.  Chemical, Electrical, and Radiation Injuries. Clin Plast Surg. 2017 Jul;44(3):657-669. (PMID: 2857625
3. Saffle, JR, (2007).  The Phenomenon of “Fluid Creep” in Acute Burn Resuscitation, Journal of Burn Care and Research Volume 28, No. 3
4. Sheridan RL, Friedstat J, Votta K. Lessons Learned from Burn Disasters in the Post-9/11 Era. Clin Plast Surg. 2017 Jul;44(3):435-440. (PMID: 28576232)
5. Vercruysse G. Alam H. Martin M., et al, Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Preferred Triage and Initial Management of the Burned Patient. J Trauma. Publish Ahead of Print. April 2019. DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002348, PMID: 31045735.Issn Print: 2163-0755