Duration
60 minutes.
Group size
4-6 participants (or team composition applicable to local area).
Target audience
Emergency department medical and nursing clinicians.
Description
This resource kit provides healthcare workers with knowledge and skills to effectively manage a patient with thermal facial burns.
Learning objectives
- Perform a structured assessment of a patient presenting with thermal burns.
- Understand the clinical features and risks associated with airway and inhalational injury secondary to thermal burns.
- Demonstrate the decision-making to effectively initiate management of a patient with thermal facial burns and associated inhalational injury.
