County Public Safety Personnel Schooled in Advanced Burn Life Support

Barrow County emergency personnel recently learned the proper method to evaluate a patient with a serious burn, how to define the magnitude and severity of the injury and how to identify and establish priorities of treatment.

The instruction came during an advanced burn life support class hosted by Barrow County Emergency Services on Friday, April 5, 2013.

“This class is only taught 4 times a year throughout Georgia,” Training Officer Captain Brian Bullock said in a news release. “Barrow County Emergency Services was picked to hold the class because of our location and the fact that the class has not been taught in this area this year.” 

Also included in the instruction were proper methods of managing the airway and support ventilation, initiating and monitoring fluid resuscitation, how to determine which patients should be transferred to a burn center and other topics related to burn injuries.

The class was attended by students from Barrow County Emergency Services, Hall County Fire Services, Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services, Dawson County Emergency Services, Oconee County Emergency Services and students from Georgia Perimeter College.

Attending from Barrow County Emergency Services were Paramedic Brett Skinner, Lieutenant Kevin Locke, Lieutenant Glen Cain, Paramedic Kim Baggett, EMT Lee Simmons, Paramedic Dany Menard, Lieutenant Randy Johnson, Paramedic Richard Johnson, Lieutenant Travis Vanzo and Paramedic David Schuler.

“We also want to say a big thank you to Dawnya Hill and her Apalachee High School students,” Bullock said. “Mrs. Hill worked with her students to get four volunteers to come to the class and be our burn patients. Students Brittany Whigham, Ashley Burton, Chrissie Hogg, and Dixie Born all spent several hours dressed up with burn injuries as the burn class students started treating them.” 

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