Essential Burn Management (EBM)
Initial Release: 2009
Current Edition: 1st, 2009
Publisher: Canadian Network for International Surgery
The objective of this course is to provide the knowledge base, technical skills and rationale to create effective and competent burn teams in low-resource centres.
Included in the manual are the following lectures:
1. Introduction and objectives of course
2. Initial trauma assessment
3. Overview of burn and burn wound assessment
4. Team approach to burn care
5. Respiratory tract burns (A) (B)
6. Parkland formula and circulatory resuscitation (C)
7. Compartment syndrome, Chemical burns
8. Wound management
9. Sepsis and infection control (including Tetanus)
10. Electrical injury
11. Pain management and Nutrition
12. Physiotherapy and rehabilitation
13. Patient transfer
14. Questions review and clarification
