EMS Burn Class

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

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).

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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