Numbers
Scarring
Burns
Fun Facts
Types
100
The "rule of [this number]" allows you to make an estimate of the TBSA of a wound
What is 9?
100
The first line treatment to prevent scar formation after a burn injury
What is moisturizer cream?
100
The hospital where Dr. Burn's works.
What is VA Puget Sound Health Care System?
100
The most common site of heterotopic ossification in burned individuals.
What is the posterior elbow?
100
A burn injury to the superficial layers of the dermis with mild to moderate wound exudate and heal in 1-2 weeks.
What is a superficial partial-thickness burn?
200
When positioning a patients to prevent contractures, this the number of degrees between the arm and the chest.
What is 90?
200
The number (range) of times moisturizer cream is applied to a burn wound each day to help minimize scarring.
What is 4-6 (four to six)?
200
The university Dr. Burn's is associated with.
What is the University of Washington?
200
The most common type of peripheral neuropathy after a burn injury.
What are median sensory neuropathies?
200
Burn injury to the deeper layers of the dermis, with few blisters, but moderate to extensive exudate and heal in 2-4 weeks.
What is a deep partial-thickness burn?
300
The mean age of people with a burn injury
What is 33?
300
This intervention helps make a scar flatter, protects it from the environment and possibly decreases erythema.
What are pressure garments?
300
The service for which Dr. Burn's serves as the Director
What is Spinal Cord Injury Service?
300
This really annoying symptom can develop about 3 months after a burn injury.
What is pruritis?
300
This type of burn wound damages all of the epidermis, and the dermis and can extend into deeper structures.
What are full thickness burns?
400
The TBSA of the palmar surface of the hand.
What is 1 percent?
400
This is a key inflammatory chemical signal in scar development.
What is TGF-beta?
400
According the Dr. Burn's, this is the most accurate way to name the exam used to assess a person with a traumatic spinal cord injury.
What is the International Standards for Neurological Classification of SCI (ISNCSCI) Exam?
400
2 reasons why immersion hydrotherapy is not longer commonly practiced.
What is: 1.) lowering of core temperature 2.) hyponatremia, 3.) infection (gram-negative, such as Pseudomonas) and cross contamination.
400
This type of burn can put someone at risk for myocardial necrosis and subsequent arrhythmias in the first 24 hours after injury.
What is an electrical burn? High voltage - >1000 V, work related Low voltage - <1000 V, occur at home
500
When positioning a patients to prevent contractures, this the number of degrees between the legs.
What is 20?
500
This medical can be used to treat hypertrophic scars, but is quite painful, especially when used on the face.
What is a corticosteroid injection?
500
Whoever presses the buzzer first gets the points.
What is an inappropriate answer stem?
500
This medication can lead to Stevens-Johnson syndrome, especially in individuals with Asian ancestry
What is carbamazepine?
500
What type of therapy may benefit from thrombolytics in the first 24 hours after injury
What is frostbite?
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