Prolonged Field Care Podcast 35: Burn Care Priorities With Dr. Cairns Of UNC Chapel Hill

Which burn fluid resuscitation formula is best? Does it really matter?

What can happen if you over resuscitate? Under?

What can cause an increase or decrease in the demand of fluids?

What can you do if you are running out of Lactated Ringers?

As a Lt. CMMDR. with the U.S. Navy, Dr. Cairns was on duty and a principle responder to the KAL flight that crashed in 1997 in Guam. Dr. Cairns was instrumental in developing the level of preparedness at the Naval Hospital there which received and managed dozens of critical patients in the morning following the crash of the 747.

Dr. Cairns has served North Carolina as a Burn Trauma Surgeon at the state’s Burn Center at UNC. In 2006, Dr. Cairns was named as the Director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center and is nationally known as a leader in Burn Trauma Care. He is a John Stackhouse Distinguished Professor of Surgery, an Associate Professor of Surgery, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Be sure to read the Clinical Practice Guideline discussed in this and a prior episode with Dr. Doug Powell. In this episode we will take another look at the CPG from another perspective.

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