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ABSITE – Burn Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
What are the 5 different causal categories for burns? - Answer✔Flame
Scald
Contact
Electrical
Chemical
What is a 1st-degree burn? - Answer✔Epidermis only
What is a superficial 2nd-degree burn? - Answer✔Epidermis and superficial dermis
What is a deep 2nd-degree burn? - Answer✔Epidermis through deep dermis
What is a 3rd-degree burn? - Answer✔Full-thickness burn involving epidermis and dermis to
the subcutaneous fat
What is a 4th-degree burn? - Answer✔Burn through epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous fat to the
underlying muscle and bone
A painful, erythematous burn with an intact epidermal barrier that blanches to the touch? -
Answer✔1st degree
Painful burn with blebs and blisters; hair follicles intact; blanches to the touch? -
Answer✔Superficial second degree
Burn with sensation decreased; loss of hair follicles? - Answer✔Deep 2nd degree
Burn with leathery feeling, no sensation - Answer✔3rd degree
Three zones of a burn (from inner to outer) - Answer✔Coagulation
Stasis
Hyperemia
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Define the zone of coagulation - Answer✔Irreversibly necrotic tissue where cells have been
disrupted
Define the zone of stasis - Answer✔Area associated with vascular damage and leakage,
adjacent to zone of coagulation. Moderately damaged tissue and impaired perfusion. Tissue can
either survive or progress to coagulative necrosis.
Zone of hyperemia: - Answer✔Area around burn with vasodilation and viable tissue. Healing
begins from here.
How can you differentiate a superficial 2nd-degree from a deep 2nd-degree burn? -
Answer✔Superficial 2nd degree burn will blanch, a deep 2nd degree burn will not.
Where does a superficial 2nd-degree burn re-epithelialize from? - Answer✔Rete ridges, hair
follicles, sweat glands (7-14 days)
Where does a deep 2nd-degree burn re-epithelialize from? - Answer✔Hair follicles, sweat gland
keratinocytes (14-35 days)
Where does a 3rd-degree burn re-epithelialize from? - Answer✔Wound edges (zone of
hyperemia?)
According to the rules of nines, what percentage of total body surface area (TBSA) do these
regions represent in an adult? - Answer✔Each upper extremity?
9% TBSA
Head and neck?
9% TBSA
Each lower extremity?
18% TBSA
Anterior torso?
18% TBSA
Posterior torso?
18% TBSA
Perineum and genitalia?
1% TBSA
What percentage of TBSA does the open hand (palm with fingers extended) of the patient
account for? - Answer✔1%
What percentage do the head and neck account for in the TBSA of an infant? - Answer✔21%
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ABSITE – Burn Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
What are the 5 different causal categories for burns? - Answer✔Flame
Scald
Contact
Electrical
Chemical
What is a 1st-degree burn? - Answer✔Epidermis only
What is a superficial 2nd-degree burn? - Answer✔Epidermis and superficial dermis
What is a deep 2nd-degree burn? - Answer✔Epidermis through deep dermis
What is a 3rd-degree burn? - Answer✔Full-thickness burn involving epidermis and dermis to
the subcutaneous fat
What is a 4th-degree burn? - Answer✔Burn through epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous fat to the
underlying muscle and bone
A painful, erythematous burn with an intact epidermal barrier that blanches to the touch? -
Answer✔1st degree
Painful burn with blebs and blisters; hair follicles intact; blanches to the touch? -
Answer✔Superficial second degree
Burn with sensation decreased; loss of hair follicles? - Answer✔Deep 2nd degree
Burn with leathery feeling, no sensation - Answer✔3rd degree
Three zones of a burn (from inner to outer) - Answer✔Coagulation
Stasis
Hyperemia
1
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Define the zone of coagulation - Answer✔Irreversibly necrotic tissue where cells have been
disrupted
Define the zone of stasis - Answer✔Area associated with vascular damage and leakage,
adjacent to zone of coagulation. Moderately damaged tissue and impaired perfusion. Tissue can
either survive or progress to coagulative necrosis.
Zone of hyperemia: - Answer✔Area around burn with vasodilation and viable tissue. Healing
begins from here.
How can you differentiate a superficial 2nd-degree from a deep 2nd-degree burn? -
Answer✔Superficial 2nd degree burn will blanch, a deep 2nd degree burn will not.
Where does a superficial 2nd-degree burn re-epithelialize from? - Answer✔Rete ridges, hair
follicles, sweat glands (7-14 days)
Where does a deep 2nd-degree burn re-epithelialize from? - Answer✔Hair follicles, sweat gland
keratinocytes (14-35 days)
Where does a 3rd-degree burn re-epithelialize from? - Answer✔Wound edges (zone of
hyperemia?)
According to the rules of nines, what percentage of total body surface area (TBSA) do these
regions represent in an adult? - Answer✔Each upper extremity?
9% TBSA
Head and neck?
9% TBSA
Each lower extremity?
18% TBSA
Anterior torso?
18% TBSA
Posterior torso?
18% TBSA
Perineum and genitalia?
1% TBSA
What percentage of TBSA does the open hand (palm with fingers extended) of the patient
account for? - Answer✔1%
What percentage do the head and neck account for in the TBSA of an infant? - Answer✔21%
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