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Advanced Burn Life Support Course General Course Objectives and Describtion

Advanced Burn Life Support Course General Course Objectives and Describtion. Dr. Aidad Abu Elsoud Alkaisi BA law, RN, BSc, MSc, PhD Specialist in Intensive Care Nursing, Anaesthetic Nursing & Nursing Education. GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES:.

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Advanced Burn Life Support Course General Course Objectives and Describtion

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  1. Advanced Burn Life Support CourseGeneral Course Objectives and Describtion Dr. Aidad Abu Elsoud Alkaisi BA law, RN, BSc, MSc, PhD Specialist in Intensive Care Nursing, Anaesthetic Nursing & Nursing Education

  2. GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES: • The quality of care during the first hours after a burn injury has a major impact on long-term outcome. • Yet most initial burn care is provided outside of the burn center environment.

  3. The Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) Pre-Hospital Course is a course designed to provide paramedics, transport teams and emergency care personnel with the skills and information that will enable them to assess and stabilize the burn patient at the scene of an emergency in preparation for transport to the nearest appropriate emergency facility.

  4. The course addresses: • Scene Management (medical control, • scene safety, and multiple casualties; • the Psychophysiology of Burns; • Initial Assessment and Management (general patient care and stabilization and transportation); • Burn Injury Types (inhale- don, chemical, and electrical); • Pediatric Burn Patients; and • Special Burn Situations: • pregnancy, • hypothermia, and • radiation injury.

  5. The objectives of the course are to provide the student with the knowledge and information required to: • Identify potential danger to the pre-hospital provider, patient or bystanders at the emergency scene. • Identify the role of medical control in managing the burn patient in the pre-hospital setting.

  6. The objectives of the course are to provide the student with the knowledge and information required to: • Determine the magnitude and severity of a bum injury. • Identify and establish priorities of emergency care in the pre-hospital setting. • Identify'criteria to be used in establishing priorities of care and evacuation in multiple casualty or disaster situations. • Provide initial pre-hospital treatment and stabilization for a burn victim.

  7. COURSE DESCRIPTION • Burn injuries occur in the home, in industry and in recreational environments. • The physiologic response to burn injury is complex. • Smoke injuries presenta challenge requiring early identification. • Threatened airway and pulmonary function demand appropriate resuscitative measures. • Chemical and electric injuries present unique challenges to the entire medical team.

  8. Summary • The management of a seriously burned patient in the first few hours post-injury can of significantly affect the long-term outcome. • Therefore, it is important that the patient be managed properly in the early hours after injury. • All aspects of the Pre-Hospital ABI.S Course have been designed to provide pre-hospital personnel and transport team with sufficient knowledge to meet the challenges of immediate care of patients with burn injuries. • Local medical protocols should be followed and medical control consulted by all pre-hospital providers, in any burn injury.

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