title: Advanced Burn Life Support for Day-to-Day Burn Injury Management and Disaster Preparedness: Stakeholder Experiences and Student Perceptions Following 56 Advanced Burn Life Support Courses.
abstract: Educational programs for clinicians managing patients with burn injuries represent a critical aspect of burn disaster preparedness. Managing a disaster, which includes a surge of burn-injured patients, remains one of the more challenging aspects of disaster medicine. During a 6-year period that included the development of a burn surge disaster program for one state, a critical gap was recognized as public presentations were conducted across the state. This gap revealed an acute and greater than anticipated need to include burn care education as an integral part of comprehensive burn surge disaster preparedness. Many hospital and prehospital providers expressed concern with managing even a single, burn-injured patient. While multiple programs were considered, Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS), a national standardized educational program was selected to help address this need. The curriculum includes initial care for the burn-injured patient as well as an overview of the burn centers role in the disaster preparedness community. After 4 years and 56 classes conducted across the state, a survey was developed including a section that measured the perceptions of those who completed the ABLS educational program. The study specifically examines questions including whether clinicians perceived changes in their burn care knowledge, skills and abilities, and burn disaster preparedness following completion of the program? including whether clinicians.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Randy D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Kearns
authors.forename: Shiara M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Pujols
authors.forename: Christopher K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Gusler
authors.forename: Mary Beth
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Skarote
authors.forename: Jeffery
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rezak-Alger
authors.forename: Charles B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Cairns
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lofald
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Hubble
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Graydon C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Lord
authors.forename: Clare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Helminiak
authors.forename: Bruce A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Cairns
mesh_terms: D061906:Advanced Trauma Life Support Care; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003479:Curriculum; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D054527:Mass Casualty Incidents; D009657:North Carolina; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires