Episode 72: Prehospital Burn Care
Ed and Dan are back, this time talking about care of burn patients outside of the hospital. Burn injuries are high-acuity, low occurrence events (HALO), and it’s easy to miss things that may have a bigger impact on your patient than previously thought.
We talk about initial basic care, why wet dressings are bad for anything more than a very small burn, fluid resuscitation and the drama that surrounds it, and pain management (in a word, YES).
Dr. Peter Antevy comes in with a Pedatric Pearl, as well…
The American Burn Association is one of the information leaders for this topic, and their website is here:
Dr. Greenhalgh review article in New England Journal of Medicine:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1807442
Another good review of current burn care in hospital by Lang, et al.:
