Burn Busters
This opioid analgesic is used to soothe the extreme pain associated with burns.
What is morphine?
This is the outermost layer of the skin and provides the primary barrier against the external environment.
What is the epidermis?
Destruction of the skin barrier makes burn patients particularly susceptible to this complication.
This rule divides the adult body into percentages to rapidly estimate the extent of a burn.
What is the rule of nines?
This junction forms a seal between adjacent epithelial cells and prevents substances from passing between cells.
What are tight junctions?
What is Ringer's Lactate (Crystalloid Fluids).
This layer lies beneath the epidermis and contains blood vessels, nerves, hair follicles, and glands.
What is the dermis?
This gram-negative organism is particularly notorious for causing burn wound infections and may produce blue-green pigment.
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
A patient has a burn that appears red, painful, and dry, with no blisters and no permanent tissue damage. What classification of burn is this?
What is a superficial (first degree) burn?
This junction uses cadherins linked to actin filaments to help neighboring cells adhere to one another.
What is an adherens junction?
This formula calculates the amount of crystalloid needed during the first 24 hours after a major burn.
What is Parkland Formula
This type of cell junction connects keratinocytes to each other and provides strong mechanical attachment between skin cells, helping the epidermis resist shearing forces.
What are desmosomes?
A patient with a severe facial burn develops eye pain and a defect involving the transparent anterior surface of the eye. This complication requires ophthalmologic evaluation.
What is corneal epithelial defect?
According to the adult Rule of Nines, each entire leg accounts for this percentage of TBSA.
What is 18%?
These strong cell-to-cell junctions connect intermediate filaments between neighboring keratinocytes, helping the epidermis resist mechanical stress.
What are desmosomes?
This topical antiseptic solution, also known as sodium hypochlorite solution, can be used for burn wound care.
Dakin's Solution
These three structures are accessory organs of the skin and are responsible for functions such as hair production, lubrication of the skin, and thermoregulation.
What are hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and sweat glands?
A severely burned patient develops progressive hypoxemia and diffuse pulmonary inflammation without evidence of cardiogenic pulmonary edema. This is the diagnosis.
What is acute respiratory distress syndrome?
A burn is red, blistered, moist, and very painful with movement. It blanches with slow refill. This is the classification.
What is a superficial partial-thickness burn?
This junction allows small molecules and ions to pass directly between neighboring cells, allowing them to communicate.
What are gap junctions?
This polymyxin antibiotic may be reserved for infections caused by highly drug-resistant gram-negative organisms, including some strains of Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas.
Colistin
These are the five layers of the epidermis, from deepest to most superficial.
What are stratum basale, spinosum, granulosum, lucidum, and corneum?
This stress-related gastric ulcer can develop in critically ill patients, including those with severe burns.
What is curling ulcer?
A burn appears white or charred, leathery, does not blanch, and has lost sensation because the nerve endings have been destroyed.
What is a full-thickness burn?
This junction anchors basal keratinocytes to the basement membrane by connecting intracellular intermediate filaments to the underlying extracellular matrix.
What are hemidesmosomes?