Circulation
This is the center of the circulatory system
What is the heart?
Device used to secure a dressing
What is a bandage?
Skinned elbows, knees, rug burns and road rash are types of these open wounds
What are abrasions?
This is a way to estimate the body surface affected by burns
What is the rule of nines?
This is the minimum amount of time you should flush a chemical burn
How long is 20 minutes?
Transport oxygen and carbon dioxide. Transports food to tissues ans wastes from the tissues to the organs of excretion
What is the function of blood?
Material used to cover an open wound, may be sterile or not sterile
What is a dressing?
In this open wound the skin is fully penetrated with injury also occuring to tissue lying under the skin
Whaat is a Laceration?
Reddening of the skin and pain at the site
What is a superficial burn?
Geriatric patients are prone to these soft tissue injuries
What is a skin tear?
Vessel that typically carries oxygentated blood away from the heart
What is an artery?
This is a dressing that has been chemically treated to help promote clotting
What is a hemostatic dressing?
Knives, Nails, bullets are objects that can cause these types of wounds
What are puncture/penetrating wounds?
The first thing that needs to be done when treating any type of burn
What is stopping the burning process?
Blunt trauma is the most common cause of this type of bleeding
What is internal bleeding?
These vessels return blood to the heart
What are veins?
A device that is used to cut off circulation when applied correctly
What is a tourniquet?
Wounds that involve tearing loose or tearing off large flaps of skin?
What is an avulsion?
A patient showing blisters and in intense pain likely has this type of burn
What is a partial thickness burn?
Sample history is important for bleeding especially in Geriatric patients who may be taking these
What are blood thinners?
The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occur at this level the smallest of the body's blood vessels
What are capillaries
Before and after bandaging it is vital to check these things
What is Circulation, Movement and Sensation?
Torn ear, an eyeball removed from the eye socket are examples of this
What is an avulsion?
Burns to the entire back and back of the legs is this percentage of body service when using the rule of nines
What is 36%?
These are the two most common life threatening injuries in burn patients
What is infection and hypothermia?