In this webinar, Steven Jeffery explores the practical management of burn injuries in remote, austere, and resource-limited environments. Drawing on extensive military and civilian burn care experience, the session focuses on early decision-making, simple interventions with the greatest impact, and how to adapt specialist burn principles when tertiary facilities are not immediately available.
The discussion covers burn cooling, wound assessment, analgesia considerations in the field, infection prevention, dressing selection, chemical burns, and patient prioritisation when resources are constrained. Steven also addresses common pitfalls in early burn care, ethical challenges in low-resource settings, and the importance of planning, prevention, and realistic ceilings of care.
This session is designed for clinicians, expedition medics, humanitarian responders, and healthcare professionals who may encounter burn injuries outside of specialist burn units and need practical, context-appropriate frameworks for safe early management and escalation decisions.