EMS Burn Class

Region 7 Disaster Health Response Ecosystem (R7DHRE) Pre-Hospital Burn Management

Release Date: 06/01/2025 | Expires: 09/30/2025 | CID: 69648

The estimated time to complete this enduring material is 60 minutes.

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

This comprehensive online module is designed to equip pre-hospital personnel with the essential knowledge and skills needed to assess, manage, and triage burn injuries in the field. Through interactive content, scenarios, and evidence-based guidelines, this course emphasizes the critical role of early burn care in improving patient outcomes. Participants will learn to recognize different types of burns, accurately estimate burn severity, initiate appropriate fluid resuscitation, as well as manage airway and pain control. Special considerations such as electrical and chemical burns, pregnancy and pediatric burns, cold injuries and mass casualty incidents are also addressed.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience for this module includes EMR, EMT, AEMT, Paramedics and other pre-hospital health care providers.

 EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this accredited continuing education activity, participants should be better able to:

  1. Describe the types, pathophysiology, and systemic effects of burn injuries.

  2. Assess burn patients using the ABCDE framework and accurately estimate burn severity (e.g., Rule of Nines and Palmar Method).

  3. Implement evidence-based pre-hospital management for burn patients, including fluid resuscitation, airway and pain management, and wound care.

  4. Adapt assessment and treatment strategies for special populations and unique scenarios (e.g., pediatrics, pregnancy, electrical/chemical burns, mass casualty incidents).

ACCREDITED CONTINUING EDUCATION

In support of improving patient care, University of Nebraska Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Continuing Education Credit

The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education, EMS and Trauma Division approves this educational opportunity for 1.0 hours of Emergency Medical Services Continuing Education.

You have until September 30, 2025 to claim credit for this activity when the module expires. You will need to complete the evaluation and attest the time you spent participating in the activity. Your certificate will be saved in your UNMC MyCCE Account portal under Certificates & Transcripts. Following completion of the course, you will receive an e-mail with the link to the evaluation.

 

METHOD OF PARTICIPATION

In order to receive continuing education credit, you must complete these steps prior to the activity expiration date.

1.     View and interact with all lessons in the activity.

2.     Complete the online evaluation.

3.     Submit the completion attestation.

4.     The link for receiving your continuing education credits will now be visible.

DISCLOSURE INFORMATION

As a jointly accredited provider, the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) ensures accuracy, balance, objectivity, independence, and scientific rigor in its educational activities and is committed to protecting learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. Faculty (authors, presenters, speakers) are encouraged to provide a balanced view of therapeutic options by utilizing either generic names or other options available when utilizing trade names to ensure impartiality.​​

All faculty, planners, and others in a position to control continuing education content participating in a UNMC-accredited activity are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. As defined by the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. The accredited provider is responsible for mitigating relevant financial relationships in accredited continuing education.  Disclosure of these commitments and/or relationships is included in these activity materials so that participants may formulate their own judgments in interpreting its content and evaluating its recommendations.​​

This activity may include presentations in which faculty may discuss off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments not yet FDA-approved. Participants should note that the use of products outside currently FDA-approved labeling should be considered experimental and are advised to consult current prescribing information for FDA-approved indications.​​

All materials are included with the permission of the faculty. The opinions expressed are those of the faculty and are not to be construed as those of UNMC.​​​

Disclosures

The accredited provider has mitigated and is disclosing identified relevant financial relationships for the following faculty, planners, and others in control of content prior to assuming their roles.

 Faculty

The following faculty have nothing to disclose:

Lauryn Burbridge, BSEM, EMT*

Jason Levy, MS*

Judy L. Placek, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, CBRN*

Katherine (Katie) Willet, MD*

 

*Faculty and Planning Committee

 Planning Committee

The following planning committee members have nothing to disclose:

Cece Abbey-Webben, MS

Shady Al-Hayek, MD

Thomas Barnett, MPH

Mark Johnston, RN, BSN

Angela Ling, MSN, FNP-C

Becci Meredith MSN, RN, CCRN, C-NPT

Shelly Schwedhelm, MSN, RN, NEA-BC

Benjamin Tysor, NRP

Mark Vazquez, BS-WED

Debra Von Seggern, NRP, EMSI

Victoria Wadman, MD

Shannan Wilson, RRT

 FINANCIAL SUPPORT 

This project is funded by the HHS ASPR Award# 6 HITEP 180041-01-23.

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