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Webinar | Feb. 6, 2025 -- Noon ET CME credits This webinar offers comprehensive insights into emergent pediatric care. This session covers updates on acute conditions, protocols for rapid assessment, and intervention strategies. Designed for healthcare professionals, this webinar reviews critical skills in managing urgent pediatric conditions for improved patient outcomes. This Webinar aligns with the Health Center Performance Improvement domain of Quality, Patient Care, and Safety as it reviews the care of the pediatric patient with acute conditions.
PRESIDENT'S LETTER: Two fall 2023 stabilization proposals – and months of advocacy – were an SOS call to the Government of Alberta from Alberta’s physicians. I’m sorry to say that there has been no answer. I have repeatedly asked you to be patient as we waited for meaningful action to address our concerns. I am not giving up, but I know that not everyone can afford to hold on indefinitely.
#TIL There is no generally recognized terminology for burn injury classification. Various “degrees” conventions stop at 3, 4, 5, and even 6.
In a 2013 paper in “Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters,” the authors write: “During the past several years of reviewing more than a thousand [related] articles … it was apparent that there is an ongoing inconsistent use of terms and phrases to describe the varying types of burn injury.”
Through the years, the burn injury has been described using a variety of labels. These labels have ranged from one word terms to phrases including degrees of injury or more descriptive terms. A search was conducted relying on a common general internet search engine. After multiple searches varying t …