ABLS - Advanced Burn Life Support

The American Burn Association (ABA) offers Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) certification to provide advanced training in managing burn patients within the first 24 hours of their injury. ABLS certification benefits nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, physicians assistants, and first responders.

The ABLS course is 7 hours long, providing live, hands-on experience for clinicians. The course contains lectures, group discussions, and case studies. Participants will also work with a simulated burn experience during the training course.

ABLS course objectives include:

1. Prepare clinicians to manage airway

2. Evaluate the severity of burn injury

3. Provide fluid support

4. Triage if a patient must be transferred to a burn center

5. Provide physiologic monitor of victim

6. Assist with disaster management

• ABLS Now Individual Course: $249

  • Group discounts are available

• ABLS Live Provider Course: $250 for non-physicians and $375 for physicians

• Fees include course materials

Renewal of ABLS provider credentials occurs over 4 years. Clinicians can renew by taking the ABLS Provider Live or online ABLS Now course. The ABLS Now course is an online, self-paced program.  Candidates for renewal must register before accessing the Ameriburn eLearn courses.

The ABA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation, allowing it to offer continuing education credits for doctors and nurses. It awards contact hours for CE credits after verifying an individual's full attendance of a course and completion of an online evaluation form.

• ABLS Now course provides 5.5 continuing education credit hours

• Live ABLS Provider course offers 7.25 continuing education hours

The ABA offers resources for exam candidates, including a provider manual.

The ABA offers the Burn Therapist Certified (BT-C).

Other related certifications include the BCEN Burn Nursing Specialty Certification (CBRN).