Burn Characteristics
Burns are soft-tissue injuries caused by heat, certain chemicals, radiation, or sometimes this
What is electricity?
A person's palm is approximately THIS percentage of their body.
What is 1%?
A responder should cool the burned area and do THIS in an attempt to prevent a burn wound from becoming infected.
What is cover the burned area?
These multiple wounds are common when a burn was caused by electricity, and are to be treated with appropriate care for open wounds.
What are entry and exit wounds?
This type of burn appears red and wet, and there may be blisters that open and release a clear fluid.
What is a Partial-Thickness burn?
The first responder should contact EMS and get an AED immediately if the burns cover more than THIS percentage of the body.
Treatment of THIS type of burn is to cool the affected area with clean running or standing water for at least 10 minutes.
What is a Superficial burn?
If a burn is caused by electricity, THIS needs to happen before the responder approaches the patient.
What is make sure the electrical current is turned off by trained personnel?
This type of burn appears red and dry, and is usually painful. The area may also swell
What is a Superficial Burn?
In an average sized adult, a general rule of thumb is that one arm accounts for THIS percentage of the body.
When covering a blistered or charred burn wound afer cooling it, cover the burn loosely with THIS type of, sterile dressing... preferably non-stick gauze.
What is a dry dressing?
If a person has serious electrical burns or was hit by lightning, treat the person as if they have THIS type of injury.
What is a head/spinal injury?
This type of burn appears brown or charred (black), The tissues underneath sometimes appear white.
What is a full-thickness burn?
In an average sized adult, a general rule of thumb is that one leg accounts for THIS percentage of the body.
What is 9%?
The body forms THESE as a natural cooling system ins response to a burn, and so should be left in place.
What are blisters?
When treating a chemical burn, any remaining chemical on the patient should be flushed with cool, running water in THIS direction, in an attempt to prevent further contamination.
What is away from the body?
Sometimes a full-thickness burn can be extremely painful, except for when THESE tiny messengers are destroyed in the skin, making the burn relatively painless.
What are nerve endings?
THIS "rule" is a method doctors and emergency medical providers use to easily calculate the treatment needs for a person who’s been burned.
What is the Rule of Nines?
If THIS area of a person's body is burned, there is a significant chance that their airway or lungs may be burned.
What is their face?
EMS should be contacted immediately if burns were cause by chemicals, electricity, or THIS sudden outburst of energy.
What is an explosion?