Activity Description:

This series will focus on evidence-based approaches to outreach, emergency, and clinical care of the burn-injured patient. Highlights will include prevalence of burn injuries, different types of burn injuries, presentations, and severity with emphasis on recent advances in diagnosis and treatment. Learners will gain competence in their approach to clinical problem-solving, apply newly acquired strategies in their practice, and improve their performance in order to provide evidence-based and patient-centered care. 

Target Audience: 

Physicians, Nurses, MAs, Technicians, EMS, Paramedic, Fire both within HCA HealthONE and external.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify, diagnose, manage burn care, and treatment plans from evidence based guidelines.  
• Review burn injury mechanism, emergent management, and specific treatments.
• Examine medical and ethical issues to improve the health and healthcare outcome of patients and the community.

Moderator:

Benson Pulikkottil, MD

Lindsay DeSantis

Laurin Proctor, BSN, RN, CBRN, CCRN

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support:  

This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.

Disclosure: 

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidenced-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties involved in content development are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. The HCA Healthcare Continental Division has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity. The CME planning committee who are in a position to control the content of this CME Activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.