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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…