This is the most important course to start the treatment pre-hospital burn patient in the first 24 hours.

A course designed by the American Burn Association and adapted to Latin america by the Argentine Society of Burns. Currently it takes 10 years to be issued in the country for members of the Foundation of the Burned all of them cirujanas plastic those who received the training as instructors. Since its inception has been focused on not only the medical group (surgeons, emergenciólogos, pediatricians, general practitioners, physicians, rural, etc), nursing, but the personal and professional pre-hospital care involved in the early and crucial 24 hours of the burn patient. Studies show that not only the survival, but the incidence and severity of complications depend on the proper management. 

This 8-hour course intensive is a detailed guide to the rescue, the initial evaluation, resuscitation and management of fluids, burns special management of the burn injury and preparation for referral and transport determinants in the first 24 hours of the burns. This is complemented with the discussion of different clinical cases that allows you to consolidate the concepts.

Course objectives:

1. To define the magnitude and severity of the injury
2. Identify, establish and start the treatment priorities.
3. Address burns special: air, chemical burns, electrical, pediatric
4. To determine the criteria for referral to centers burned.
5. Prepare to transport and to define the type of transport required according to the severity of the burn.