burn - Answers any tissue injury resulting from direct heat contact, scalds, flames, chemicals, radiation,
or electric current
Causes of burns - Answers - Inhalation
- Thermal
- Electrical
- Chemical
- Radiation
- Cold Thermal
1st degree burn - Answers - superficial, patrial thickness
- hot liquids, heated surfaces, scalds
- red, painful
- line of demarcation
- heal in 2 weeks, no grafting
- dry, itchy, prone to shear
2nd degree burn - Answers - superficial or deep, partial thickness
- blisters
- most painful
- heal in 3 weeks
- require grafts
3rd degree burns - Answers - full thickness, subdermal
- electrical, high temp surfaces, scalds
- appear white
- require grafts
4th degree burns - Answers - damages fat, muscle, bone
- may not survive
, - most likely will lose body section
Most severe burns occure on the: - Answers hands, face, genitals
superficial burn healing time - Answers 3-4 days
superficial-partial thickness burn healing time - Answers 2 weeks
deep-partial thickness burn healing time - Answers 3 weeks or longer
full-thickness burn healing time - Answers grafting necessary to complete healing
inhalation injuries - Answers major predictor of mortality in burn victims.
resuscitation phase - Answers 0-36 hours after initial injury
Post resuscitation phase - Answers 2-6 days after injury
inflammation and infection phase - Answers 7 days after injury until wound closure
rehabilitation and wound-remodelling phase - Answers up to 1 year
autograft - Answers skin graft from a person's own body
allograft - Answers skin graft from another person or a cadaver
xenograft - Answers transplantation from a foreign donor (usually a pig)
how many days after surgery to tx a burn victim - Answers 5-7 days, until staples are removed
split thickness skin graft - Answers for shallow wounds, Dr only uses a few layers of skin
full thickness graft - Answers requires all 3 layers of skin
Composite graft - Answers for wounds that include bone, tendon, muscle
debridement - Answers cleansing and removal of non-adherent, non-viable tissue
escharotomy - Answers an incision made into the necrotic tissue resulting from a severe burn
fasciotomy - Answers a surgical incision through the fascia to relieve tension or pressure
position of comfort - Answers The position a patient naturally assumes when feeling ill or in pain - fetal
position
position of deformity - Answers position a patient needs to be in to heal correctly
hypertrophic scars - Answers result from uncontrolled production of fibroblasts and excess in deposition
of collagen tissue