The 2023 American Burn Association Research and Advocacy Summit: Our Roadmap.

Research is one of the American Burn Association's (ABA) strategic priorities. Advocacy is required not only to promote burn research, but also, the ABA's other strategic priorities (Prevention, Quality, and Education). The ABA convened a two-day Research and Advocacy (R&A) Summit in September 2023, to develop a roadmap for the organization's research and advocacy efforts.

Dear Program Directors: There Are Numerous Entrustable Professional Activities on a Burns Rotation!

Burn care has long been an integral part of the scope of plastic surgery, but the time allocated to exposure for plastic surgery residents is under threat due to the range of sub-specialities competing for their time. As part of the Competence by Design approach to plastic surgical training, residents are provided with a list of 52 "Entrustable professional activities' (EPA's) to ensure that core skills and knowledge are acquired. This survey, distributed via email using a link to Survey Monkey, sought to determine which EPA's were available for completion by plastic surgeons in training during the burn rotation at a major academic burn centre in Canada.

American Burn Association Clinical Practice Guidelines on Burn Shock Resuscitation.

This Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) addresses the topic of acute fluid resuscitation during the first 48 hours following a burn injury for adults with burns ≥20% of the total body surface area (%TBSA). The listed authors formed an investigation panel and developed clinically relevant PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome) questions. A systematic literature search returned 5978 titles related to this topic and after 3 levels of screening, 24 studies met criteria to address the PICO questions and were critically reviewed.