TCAA's Trauma University is designed to provide practitioners with cutting edge clinical education. Based on TCAA member recommendations, 2023's presentation provides a comprehensive review of a complex case covering multiple generations of trauma patients. 

Estimated completion time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Target Audience: The Trauma healthcare team and other clinical departments

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the learner should be better able to:

1. Describe the principles of burn disaster management. 
2. Define best practices utilized in treating the patient with burns and trauma-related injuries. 
3. Describe the diferent types of burns more unique to the pediatric population. 
4. Identify best practices for a trauma patient with inhalation-type burns. 

Faculty Presenters: Carmen Flores

Faculty Bios:

Dr. Carmen Flores:  Dr. Flores is currently practicing in Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, General Surgery including minimally-invasive surgery, and Burn Surgery, in Las Vegas, Nevada at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. She completed undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, then returned to the West Coast for General Surgery Residency at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, where she was privileged to study and work under the tutelage of Drs. Dan Caruso, Mike Peck, Marc Matthews, and Kevin Foster, at the Arizona Burn Center. She has incorporated all she learned at the Arizona Burn Center, into her General Surgery and Burn practice at University Medical Center in Las Vegas Nevada, as an assistant professor of surgery in the division of Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Flores has published articles in multiple peer-reviewed journals, and is passionate about serving the medically-underserved and vulnerable populations. She enjoys spending time with her four children during her free time, and is heavily involved in teaching and education both in the hospital with residents and fellows, and outside of the hospital in clinic and professional courses.