Stop, Drop, & Roll
First degree burns involve these layers of skin.
What is epithelium?
Patient sustains a flash burn to his face with singed eyebrows and nares, he is sating 95% on non-rebreather. He has a change in the character of his voice. The next steps include intubation and this.
What is bronchoscopy?
This is performed after a circumferential burn to an extremity or severe burn to the thorax.
What is an escharotomy?
This cream causes a transient leukopenia.
What is Silvadene (Silver sulfadiazine)
In an electrical injury, electricity travels through this tissue type causing the most damage?
What is muscle?
This type of burn does not blanch when pressure is applied and often does not hurt.
What is a 3rd degree burn or full thickness burn?
The Parkland formula is used to calculate fluid resuscitation and is defined as this.
What is 4 x weight(kg) x TBSA% burn?
This is the most common bacteria found in a burn wound bed.
What is pseudomonas?
Via an inhibition of carbonic anhydrase, this topical antibiotic can penetrate eschar but also cause a metabolic acidosis.
What is mafenide acetate or Sulfamylon?
In an electrical burn, this lab value is important to obtain in order to watch for muscle breakdown.
Creatinine Kinase. Daily Double: Muscle breakdown ultimately causes this organ pathology.
This degree burn involves blanching of the dermis with pressure, blistering, and erythema?
What is a 2nd degree burn?
This urine output is required to ascertain adequate resuscitation.
What is 0.5 ml/kg/hr?
This type of skin graft has the least amount of contracture.
What is full thickness skin graft?
This topical antibiotic can cause methemoglobinemia and hyponatremia, but can't penetrate eschar.
What is silver nitrate?
Delayed tissue injury in frostbite is caused by this
What is microvascular thrombosis?
Patient sustains bilateral lower extremity burns encompassing the entirety of the limb. According the rule of 9s, this is the percent BSA burned.
What is 36%?
Normal saline is given to a burn patient with 35% TBSA burn. The resultant metabolic derangement is this.
What is hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis?
In a skin graft, these cells provide regenerative skins cells for wound healing.
What are epidermal skin cells from hair follicles and sweat glands?
This is given to a patient who sustains a burn with hydrofluoric acid.
What is calcium gluconate gel?
Deep injury from frostbite is marked by this.
What are hemorrhagic vesicles with subdermal injury or development of thick black eschar over 1-2 wks?
Patient is on top of a tanker at a filling station. He zips up his jacket on a cold morning and static ignites the fumes. He sustains 3rd degree burns to his neck, torso, arms, groin, and legs. He also has bilateral femur and pelvic fractures. His central line is placed here.
What is through the burn?
A patient is trapped in a house fire in an old abandoned mansion. These 2 compounds can cause systemic toxicity.
What is carbon monoxide and cyanide?
This is the most common virus found in a burn wound.
What is HSV?
In a patient with a hydrofluoric acid burn who is not treated appropriately, this is what causes their demise.
What are ventricular arrhythmias?
This can be used for rewarming in severe hypothermia, core temp of 28oC
ECMO or cardiopulmonary bypass