Learn to manage major and minor burns from a faculty of burns specialists led by eminent burns surgeon, Mr Stuart Watson, and sponsored by COBIS (Care of Burns in Scotland). The course consists of lectures, plus practical tutorials, covering the essentials of physiology, recognition, assessment, and management of all common burn types.
Target Audience
All doctors, nurses, and paramedics who look after acute burns (ED, ENP, Rural GP, etc).
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:
Discuss the assessment of burn injuries
Initiate a treatment plan for most burn injuries
Describe the importance of infection prevention; nutrition; temperature control; pain management; physiotherapy and psychological care of burn patients
Undertake debridement and dressing of burn wounds
Describe why large burn injuries cause systemic illness and why burns may threaten the airway, cause renal failure, and multi-organ failure
Program :
Module 1: Background to Burns Management
Lecture: How a burn harms a patient
Lecture: Causes of burns
Lecture: The immediate management of burns
Module 2: Burn Thickness
Lecture: Superficial & superficial-partial thickness burns
Lecture: Deep-partial thickness burns
Lecture: Full-thickness burns
Module 3: Complicated Burn Injuries
Lecture: Major Burns
Lecture: Electrical Burn Injuries
Lecture: Burn wound infection
Lecture: Airway & Inhalational Injury
Lecture: Facial burns
Module 4: Hand Injuries
Tutorial: Paediatric Hand Injuries
Tutorial: Paediatric Hand Dressings
Tutorial: Adult Hand Injuries
Tutorial: Hand Physiotherapy
Module 5: Head/neck/chest burns
Tutorial: Paediatric Head & Neck Burns
Tutorial: Paediatric Facial Burns
Tutorial: Paediatric Chest & Shoulder Dressings
Tutorial: Adult Facial Burns
Module 6: Groin Burns
Tutorial: Groin Burns
Tutorial: Groin Burn Dressing
