Advanced Burn Life Support

This section is intended to give basic guidelines for initial clinical management of a burn patient in a mass casualty incident. For information about becoming certified in Advanced Burn Life Support, go to http // www.ameriburn.org/ABLS/ABLS.htm. [Pg.224]

Communication to fire departments and other first responders, hospital emergency room physicians in the nation s 7000 hospitals, and others regarding the availability of advanced burn life support (ABLS) training through both the traditional ABLS courses and the new Web-based ABLS Now course. [Pg.235]

Initial treatment of casualties of an explosion or blast is the same as for those with injuries from motor vehicle accidents, gunshots, falls, burns, and other major traumatic mechanisms. Vaughan (2005, n.p.) states the immediate focus in the event of an explosion is maintaining life and limb. The principles of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), and Advanced Ttauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) should also be applied in this situation. Each of these certification programs discusses assessment in reference to primary and secondary surveys, progressing... [Pg.242]

American Burn Association. (2005a). Advanced bum life support provider manual. Chicago American Burn Association. [Pg.229]

American Burn Association. (2005). Advanced Bum Life Support Course provider manual. Chicago Author. [Pg.252]

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