Burn Basics
Clue: This is the fundamental definition of a burn, involving the destruction of the layers of the skin.
Answer: What is cell destruction of the layers of the skin?
Clue: For an adult, a burn is considered major if it affects this percentage or more of the total body surface area (TBSA).
Answer: What is 25%?
Clue: The emergent phase of burn management covers the first this many hours following the injury.
Answer: What are 72 hours?
Clue: Elevating burned limbs is a nursing intervention aimed at decreasing this common post-burn complication.
Answer: What is edema?
Clue: Using Rule of 9s, what is the burn percentage of the head and neck?
Answer: What is 9%? (4.5 + 4.5)
Clue: According to the American Burn Association, burns are classified into these two main categories based on thickness
Answer: What are Partial-thickness burns (1st & 2nd degree) and Full-thickness burns (3rd & 4th degree)?
Clue: For a child, a major burn consists of this percentage or more of the total body surface area (TBSA).
Answer: What is 10%?
Clue: After ensuring ABCs, a critical step in emergency burn management is to remove this type of clothing from the client.
Answer: What is non-adherent clothing?
Clue: In addition to fluid therapy and wound care, this is a third (and often the priority) component of nursing care for burn clients.
Answer: What is airway management?
Clue: Using Rule of 9s, what is the burn percentage of the BUE and BLE?
Answer: What is 54%? (9 +9 + 18 + 18)
Clue: Name at least three of the five causes of burn injuries listed in the sources.
Answer: What are Heat, Friction, Electricity, Radiation, or Chemicals?
Clue: A client must be transferred to a burn center if their TBSA burn is greater than this percentage.
Answer: What is 10%?
Clue: After initial care, burns should be covered with either dry dressings or this type of clean covering
Answer: What is a clean sheet?
Clue: The RN should administer all pain medications via what route for Burn patients?
Answer: What is a peripheral intravenous (IV) line?
Clue: An 18 yr old male weighing 82 kg burns his back, the back of his left leg, and his entire right arm in a house fire. What is the TBSA of burns?
Answer: What is 18+9+9=36?
Clue: Both 1st and 2nd degree burns fall under this general classification of burns.
Answer: What are partial-thickness burns?
Clue: Aside from TBSA, burns of this degree or higher are a specific criterion for transfer to a burn center.
Answer: What is 3rd degree?
Clue: During the emergent phase, the nurse should place this specific number of large bore IV access sites
Answer: What are two?
Clue: In the Acute phase, the nurse will assess what expected findings?
Answer: What is hemodynamic stability, capillary permeability is restored, and diuresis has begun.
Clue: A 25 yr old male weighing 104 kg is involved in a car accident. He burns his anterior torso and perineal area. What is the rate of fluids to be given in the first 8 hours?
Answer: What is 494 mLs/hr?
Clue: This specific organization is responsible for classifying burns into partial-thickness and full-thickness categories
Answer: What is the American Burn Association?
Clue: Patients in a burn center should be in what type of precaution?
Answer: What is isolation?
Clue: This specific type of fluid is recommended for replacement therapy in burn clients during the emergent phase.
Answer: What is Lactated Ringer's (LR)?
Clue: Nursing focus in the Acute phase includes what plan of care? (name at least 3 key ideas).
Answer: What is a focus on infection control, wound care, wound closure, nutritional support, pain management, [compartment syndrome detection], and physical therapy.
Clue: A 52 yr old female burns anterior torso, her back, and her left leg while retrieving her cat from a house fire. She weighs 143lbs = 65 kg. What is the rate of fluids to be given in the first 8 hours?
Answer: What is 877.5 mLs/hr (or 878)?