This article outlines the procedures and rules that all ABLS Live Faculty, Participants, and courses must follow.

Requirements to Participate in the Course

ABLS is designed for medical professionals involved in the immediate care of the burn patient up to the first 24 hours post-injury or who are interested in training involving emergency and mass casualty preparedness focusing on triage, burn survivability, patient transportation, and patient treatment.
This course is designed for established medical professionals with baseline knowledge of the subject. We recommend that current students wait until they have hands on experience before taking the course.
- Participants will only receive credit for the course if they complete it in its entirety. Participants may not take the didactic portion one day and the evaluation another.
- Participants may not take ABLS Now and then the in-person evaluation to earn an ABLS Live certification
- All participants must create an ABA profile and sign up for the course on the ABA website to receive credit.
- Participants may not take ABLS Now to renew their ABLS Live certification

Requirements for Faculty Roles

Academic Role Pre-requisites are listed here. Please read them carefully and make sure that you meet all pre-requisites.

Any person who is currently National Faculty and recertifying with the T4 webinar does not need to be observed teaching. Any new National Faculty approved after 9/2023 will need to be observed by a T4 trained National Faculty member teaching the instructor course.
- All instructors must have three years of burn care experience and must have consistent clinical contact with burn patients. No exceptions will be made for military personal or other groups
Any person who has a position with a company that provides equipment or services to the industry can not be faculty as their conflict of interest cannot be mitigated
All faculty must have taken ABLS Live at least once and their certification must be at least 12 months old. ABLS Now can not be used to recertify if their certification is lapsing before they take the instructor course.
All valid instructors must have the 2023 instructor recertification. If they have not completed that, they will need to start the process over and take the in person instructor course and be observed again before admitting an application to be considered to be an instructor.
All faculty must be current members and their membership must not have lapsed during their tenure.
If a person’s instructor status lapses, that automatically causes their National Faculty and Coordinator statuses to lapse as well

Only Course Coordinators may request a course
The coordinator must list all instructors on the request
The coordinator must include the date, time, and location of the course
All requests must be made 6 weeks in advance, any course not requested with that amount of lead time is not guaranteed to be approved

Course coordinators are responsible for advertising their courses
All ABLS live courses are billed to the organization at $150 per person as long as they are not central run. The cost to the participants is decided by the organization
All ABLS Live course need a course director who is an MD/DO available by phone on the day of the course to answer questions.
Observing National Faculty can teach lectures, but not the clinical studies or patient assessments at the same time as the observee.
National Faculty can only observe up to two instructor candidates per course and must use the most current observation form found in the National Faculty community and course coordinator webinar library
Instructor candidates may not make up more than half of the instructor pool
- The course coordinator is responsible for sourcing moulage volunteers or medical dummies and for applying the moulage make up
There must be enough space for the didactic lecture and break outs in separate rooms with the appropriate AV equipment
The course must follow all guidelines set forth in the instructor course and materials, including how many clinical assessments and patient evaluations each person should do before they take their assessment.

Organizations pay for any participants who attends the course day of, regardless of if the complete or pass the course.
Coordinators should respond to the closeout email in a timely manner.
- Coordinators should list any changes in the body of the email in an organized fashion. Any full rosters sent either as an attachment or in the email will not be read and will result in follow up emails and the delay of course closure.
Coordinators must specify if they need a split invoice or an outside organization billed in the course closeout email. Invoices can not be canceled and reissued once they have been issued
Coordinators are responsible for ensuring prompt payment of invoices, even if they were working with an outside organization. Consistent failure to remit payment in a timely manner will result in the inability to host future courses.
- Participants are responsible for making sure that they follow directions to populate their certifications.
If they have trouble, please direct them to the help page first and then to the ABLS email
Participants are responsible for tracking and reporting their certifications to their organizations and accrediting bodies, the ABA will not report their CEU’s