The Australian and New Zealand Burn Association Limited.
The
Association was formed in 1976 by a group of medical and nursing staff
who were drawn together by their common interest in improving the
quality of care that their burn patients received. Since then this group
has expanded to now include a truly multidisciplinary group of burn
care professionals who are in interested in teaching, care, research and
prevention of burn related problems.
The multidisciplinary
nature of the Association is an extension of every day burn care
philosophy, as practiced in burn units throughout Australia and New
Zealand.
The Association has an important role in the promotion
of the Minimum Standards of Burn Care in Australia and New Zealand and
its in this context that this publication and the related EMSB course
have been developed.
The patient with burns presents a difficult
challenge to most health care personnel. This course is based on the
principal that timely emergency assessment, resuscitation and transfer
provide the best chance of recovery. Ultimately, the patient that we
will be called upon to manage with burns, and perhaps with associated
severe injuries, will benefit from this course.
The aim of this
course is to provide sufficient factual information regarding the
presentation, diagnosis and initial management of the patient with
severe burns, to enable medical and nursing practitioners to deal
competently with this urgent and often life threatening problem.
The
course follows the trauma management protocols as taught by the
Australasian College of Surgeons in their Emergency Management of Severe
Trauma (EMST) Course, as this course is the accepted trauma management
teaching system for medical practitioners in Australia and New Zealand.
The
Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) Course provides trauma
management guidelines and protocols specific to burns, that are
addictive in content to EMST. While EMSB is designed to be a 'Stand
Alone Course', which provides sufficient information to define the
Minimum Standards of the Emergency Burn Care (of the Austalian And New
Zealand Burn Association), the course can also be taught in conjunction
with the EMST, providing extra information specific to the management of
burns.
EMSB covers the principal of the emergency management of
severe burns in Austalia and New Zealand. The course is appropriate for
medical and nursing practitioners working anywhere in the field of burn
care, from members of the burn unit, to medical and nursing staff in
isolated areas. Apart from teaching the material contained, the course
seeks to emphasize the benefits of all emergency care givers having
knowledge of the same protocols of emergency burn care, as the
facilitates primary care and appropriate referral; the ultimate
beneficiary of this approach of being our patient with burns.
The information is taught in six separate and complimentary sections:
Course
Manual, Formal Lectures, Skill Stations, Interactive Discussion Groups,
Simulated Burn Cases and Examination and Clinical Test.
College
of Surgeon of Indonesia and the College of Surgeon of Plastic Surgery have a collaboration with Australian New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA)-
Royal Austalasian College of Surgeons (RACS) to conduct the Second Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) Course in Indonesia.
This
course will be held in the International Training Development Centre
(BitDec), Nyanyi- Bali beach, which will be divided into 2 stages:
1. February 17th, 2016 ---> EMSB Course I ---> 24 participants
2. February 18th, 2016 ---> Training for Trainers Course (Tt) ---> 12 participants
3. February 19th, 2016 ---> EMSB Course II ---> 24 participants