Burns: Assessment, Rehab and Healing

Burns: Assessment, Rehab and Healing is organized by AAACEUs. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 10 Credit Hours.

Course Overview:
Outline:
•  Burn Incidence and Treatment in the United States: 2015
•  Burns and Traumatic Injury
•  Burns: World Health Organization Fact Sheet
•  National Cancer Institute: Anatomy of the Skin
•  Common Causes of Burn Injuries
•  Burns: Nutritional Considerations
•  Energy and Macro-nutrient Support
•  Micro-nutrient Support
•  Orders
•  What to Tell the Family
•  Types of Skin Burn Grafts
•  Review of Current Research on Skin Grafts
•  Burns: Scar Treatment and Life Care Planning
•  Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of thermal burns
•  Rehabilitation of the burn patient
•  Psychosocial Care of Persons with Burn Injuries
•  Psychological Distress after Burn Injury
•  Understanding and Improving Body Image after Burn Injury
•  Accommodation and Compliance: Employees with Burn Injuries

Course Objectives:
•  Discuss the Incidence and Treatment of Burns: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow
•  Describe:
   1.The anatomy of the skin
   2.Common causes of burn injuries
   3.Nutrition support as a component of burn care
   4.Types of Skin Grafts
   5.Scar Treatment, and
   Areas of Concentration of Life Care Planning for Burn Patients
•  Review adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of thermal burns
•  Explain Rehabilitation of the burn patient
•  Describe the Psychosocial care of persons with Burn Injuries
•  Discuss questions/issues to consider when accommodating employees with burn injuries.