Emergency Burn Care: What You Really Need To Know
A child that is burned is a gut wrenching experience, but not knowing how to best care for them is almost as horrible. Burns that are thermal, chemical, or electrical in origin will change the lives of thousands of people forever each year. Prehospital and emergency personnel can be one of the first to care for these patients and proper interventions in the first few critical hours can truly be lifesaving. Current assessment and management principles of burn care, as well as their pathophysiologic rationales will be discussed. This interactive lecture will dispel many of the myths of burn care, thus allowing for a better understanding of the real-life ways to best manage these critically ill children & adults.
•EMS vs. ER fluid resuscitation
•Myths of Morphine
•Dressings: Dry vs. wet? Goop or no goop?
•Thermal, electrical, chemical, tar, & non-accidental burns