American Burn Association#Research and publications
{{Short description|Nonprofit medical organization}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = American Burn Association
| formation = 1967
| founder = Bruce G. MacMillan, Curtis P. Artz, B. W. Hayes, Irving Feller, John A. Boswick Jr.
| type = Nonprofit
| headquarters = Chicago, Illinois
| leader_title = Current President
| leader_name = Ingrid Parry, MS, PT, BT-C
| website = https://www.ameriburn.org
}}
The American Burn Association (ABA) is a member-based organization of professionals dedicated to burn injury treatment, research, education, and prevention.{{Cite web |title=Who We Are – American Burn Association |url=https://ameriburn.org/who-we-are/ |access-date=2022-07-10 |language=en-US}} The 2,000+ members of the ABA span multiple disciplines that specialize in burns, including physicians, surgeons, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, firefighters, social workers, researchers, and hospitals with burn centers. Since it was founded in 1967, the ABA has created a variety of programs in an effort to improve the lives of those affected by burn injuries.{{Citation |title=ABA Bylaws |date=2020-01-13 |url=https://ameriburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/aba-bylaws-approved-1-13-20-v3.pdf}}
History
After World War II, interest in burn care grew among medical professionals.{{Cite journal |last=Dimick |first=Alan |date=1979-07-01 |title=1978 Presidential Address: American Burn Association |url=https://ameriburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/dimick-signed.pdf |journal=Journal of Trauma |volume=19 |issue=7 |pages=520–525|doi=10.1097/00005373-197907000-00007 |pmid=379356 }} This is most likely due to the amount of burn injuries sustained during the war, as well as the growing fear of a nuclear war which could result in an unprecedented amount of burn injuries.{{Cite journal |last=Alexander |first=J. Wesley |date=1986-01-01 |title=Burn Care: A Specialty in Evolution—1985 Presidential Address, American Burn Association |url=https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Citation/1986/01000/Burn_Care__A_Specialty_in_Evolution_1985.1.aspx |journal=Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery |language=en-US |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1097/00005373-198601000-00001 |pmid=3510301 |issn=2163-0755}} In 1959, thirteen surgeons from nine institutions held the first National Burn Seminar at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas to discuss case studies, treatment techniques, and specific issues in the field.{{Cite journal |last=Feldman |first=Michael J. |date=2018-02-20 |title=A Review of the First Seminar That Set the Stage for the Creation of the American Burn Association |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29538774/ |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research|volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=183–187 |doi=10.1097/BCR.0000000000000583 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |issn=1559-0488 |pmid=29538774}} In the following years, further National Burn Seminars were held at different medical centers across the United States and steadily gained more participants. At the Seventh National Burn Seminar in 1966, a committee was appointed to plan a national organization centered on burn care. The organization would be unique in that it would include people from multiple professions (doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals) as part of the whole burn care team.{{Cite journal |last=Artz |first=Curtis P. |date=1973-12-01 |title=The American Burn Association: An Organization for the Entire Health Care Team |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039610916401817 |journal=Surgical Clinics of North America |series=Trauma |language=en |volume=53 |issue=6 |pages=1327–1334 |doi=10.1016/S0039-6109(16)40181-7 |pmid=4586470 |issn=0039-6109}} The day after the eighth National Burn Seminar in 1967, the committee finalized the bylaws for the American Burn Association, and appointed its officers. The first president of the ABA was trauma surgeon and burn specialist Curtis P. Artz.{{Cite web |title=Curtis P Artz MUSC Surgical Society |url=https://medicine.musc.edu/departments/surgery/alumni/curtis-p-artz-musc-surgical-society |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=medicine.musc.edu |language=en-us}}
Programs
= Burn center verification =
While there are 129 burn centers in the US, only 71 are verified burn centers, meaning they meet specific criteria set by the ABA and the American College of Surgeons (ACS).{{Cite web |title=American Burn Association Find a Burn Center |url=https://ameriburn.org/resources/find-a-burn-center/ |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=ameriburn.org}} In order to become verified, the burn center must go through an extensive process in which the ABA and ACS review the facility's resources, burn team personnel and training, and the center's ability to provide long-term, ongoing care for burn patients.
= Education =
The Board of Certification for Emergency Nurses is working with the ABA to develop the Certified Burn Registered Nurse certification, the first burn nursing specialty certification in the world.{{Cite web |last=Driggers |first=Briauna |title=New Burn Specialty Nursing Certification Coming Soon |url=https://bcen.org/burn-nursing-specialty-certification/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=BCEN |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Burn Nursing Certification Under Development |url=https://ameriburn.org/burn-nursing-certification-under-development/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=American Burn Association |date=11 August 2021 |language=en-US}} Nurses were to be able to take the exam starting in 2023.{{Cite web |last=BCEN |date=2022-07-12 |title=Burn Certification (CBRN) Update – July 2022 |url=https://bcen.org/cbrn-burn-certification-update-july-2022/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=BCEN |language=en-US}}
The ABA Advanced Burn Life Support certification is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.{{Cite web |title=Continuing Education – American Burn Association |url=https://ameriburn.org/education/continuing-education/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |language=en-US}} It focuses on emergent and immediate care for burn patients within the first 24-hours of sustaining their injuries and encompasses information relevant to a variety of professions involved in burn care.{{Cite web |title=Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) – American Burn Association |url=https://ameriburn.org/education/advanced-burn-life-support-abls/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |language=en-US}}
= Research and publications =
The Journal of Burn Care & Research (JBCR) is the official journal of the ABA, and is currently the only medical journal in the US dedicated exclusively to burn care.{{Cite web |title="About the Journal" |url=https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/pages/About |access-date=2022-07-12 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530130831/https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/pages/About |archive-date=30 May 2022 |url-status=dead}} It began publication in September 1980 as The Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Mary |last2=Marvin |first2=Janet |title=Burn Care Update |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation |date=September 1980 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=40 |doi=10.1097/00004630-198009000-00006}} and obtained its present title in 2006.{{cite journal |last1=Gamelli |first1=Richard L. |title=Comments from the New Editor-in-Chief |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |date=January 2006 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=119 |doi=10.1097/01.bcr.0000197277.45642.69}} JCBR has published a series of practice guidelines in an effort to standardize burn care.{{Cite journal |last=Gibran |first=Nicole S. |date=2006-07-01 |title=Practice Guidelines for Burn Care, 2006 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/27/4/437-438/4605404 |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |language=en |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=437–438 |doi=10.1097/01.BCR.0000226084.26680.56 |pmid=16819344 |issn=1559-047X}} The original practice guidelines were first published in 2000, and later revised by the ABA's Committee on the Organization and Delivery of Burn Care in 2006. Since, there have been a variety of articles expanding upon the guidelines and contributing to the discourse surrounding practices such as pain management,{{Cite journal |last1=Faucher |first1=Lee |last2=Furukawa |first2=Kenneth |date=2006-09-01 |title=Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain |url=https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/27/5/659-668/4605455 |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |language=en |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=659–668 |doi=10.1097/01.BCR.0000238117.41490.00 |pmid=16998398 |issn=1559-047X}}{{Cite journal |last1=Romanowski |first1=Kathleen S |last2=Carson |first2=Joshua S |last3=Pape |first3=Kate |last4=Bernal |first4=Eileen |last5=Wiechman |first5=Shelley A |last6=Carter |first6=Damien W |last7=Nitzschke |first7=Stephanie |last8=Bhalla |first8=Paul I |last9=Litt |first9=Jeffrey |last10=Friedman |first10=Bruce |last11=Jeng |first11=James C |date=2020-03-03 |title=125 Management of Acute Pain in the Burn Patient: Reaching a New Guideline |url=https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/41/Supplement_1/S84/5776212 |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |language=en |volume=41 |issue=Supplement_1 |pages=S84–S85 |doi=10.1093/jbcr/iraa024.128 |issn=1559-047X}} nutrition,{{Cite journal |last1=Mosier |first1=Michael J. |last2=Pham |first2=Tam N. |last3=Klein |first3=Matthew B. |last4=Gibran |first4=Nicole S. |last5=Arnoldo |first5=Brett D. |last6=Gamelli |first6=Richard L. |last7=Tompkins |first7=Ronald G. |last8=Herndon |first8=David N. |date=2011-01-01 |title=Early Enteral Nutrition in Burns: Compliance With Guidelines and Associated Outcomes in a Multicenter Study |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |language=en |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=104–109 |doi=10.1097/BCR.0b013e318204b3be |issn=1559-047X |pmc=3850279 |pmid=21116188}} managing electrical injuries,{{Cite journal |last1=Arnoldo |first1=Brett |last2=Klein |first2=Matthew |last3=Gibran |first3=Nicole S. |date=2006-07-01 |title=Practice Guidelines for the Management of Electrical Injuries |url=https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/27/4/439-447/4605406 |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |language=en |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=439–447 |doi=10.1097/01.BCR.0000226250.26567.4C |pmid=16819345 |issn=1559-047X}} preventing and treating necrotizing soft-tissue infections,{{Cite journal |last1=Endorf |first1=Frederick W. |last2=Cancio |first2=Leopoldo C. |last3=Klein |first3=Matthew B. |date=2009-09-01 |title=Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infections: Clinical Guidelines |url=https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/30/5/769-775/4598383 |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |language=en |volume=30 |issue=5 |pages=769–775 |doi=10.1097/BCR.0b013e3181b48321 |pmid=19692912 |issn=1559-047X}} and the use of orthoses.{{Cite journal |last1=Parry |first1=Ingrid S |last2=Schneider |first2=Jeffrey C |last3=Yelvington |first3=Miranda |last4=Sharp |first4=Patricia |last5=Serghiou |first5=Michael |last6=Ryan |first6=Colleen M |last7=Richardson |first7=Elizabeth |last8=Pontius |first8=Kara |last9=Niszczak |first9=Jonathan |last10=McMahon |first10=Margaret |last11=MacDonald |first11=Lori E |date=2020-05-02 |title=Systematic Review and Expert Consensus on the Use of Orthoses (Splints and Casts) with Adults and Children after Burn Injury to Determine Practice Guidelines |url=https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/41/3/503/5559930 |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research |language=en |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=503–534 |doi=10.1093/jbcr/irz150 |pmid=31504622 |issn=1559-047X|doi-access=free }}
The American Burn Research Network (ABuRN) facilitates research and clinical trials affiliated with the ABA.{{Cite web |title=ABuRN – American Burn Association |url=https://ameriburn.org/research/aburn/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |language=en-US}}
The ABA's Burn Care Quality Platform is a dataset of burn research that is provided voluntarily by burn centers each year.{{Cite web |title=Burn Research Dataset – American Burn Association |url=https://ameriburn.org/research/burn-dataset/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |language=en-US}} Access to the dataset is available to researchers, advocacy groups, and clinicians upon request.{{Cite journal |last1=Gus |first1=Eduardo |last2=Brooks |first2=Stephanie |last3=Multani |first3=Iqbal |last4=Zhu |first4=Jane |last5=Zuccaro |first5=Jennifer |last6=Singer |first6=Yvonne |date=2022-06-06 |title=Burn Registries State of Affairs: A Scoping review |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35766390/ |journal=Journal of Burn Care & Research|volume=43 |issue=5 |pages=1002–1014 |doi=10.1093/jbcr/irac077 |issn=1559-0488 |pmid=35766390}}
= Prevention and advocacy =
The first full week of February is National Burn Awareness Week.{{Cite web |title=NFPA - Burn awareness |url=https://www.nfpa.org/burnawareness |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=www.nfpa.org}}