Burns

Types

100

This burn is the mildest of burns and is limited to the top layer of skin.

Superficial

200

The most serious type of burn and involves all the layers of the skin and underlying tissue.

    

Full-thickness

300

These burns do not cause pain because of the severity of nerve damage

Full-thickness

400

This type of burn does not blanch with pressure, but has blisters.

Deep partial thickness

500

This type of burn has blisters but blanches with pressure

Superficial partial thickness.

Assessment

100

What is the first thing you assess?

Airway

200

How do you remove hot and burned clothing?

Copious irrigation

300

Why is an arterial line initiated?

To assess hemodynamic status

400

4 s/s of smoke inhalation injury

Hypoxia

        Hypercapnia

        Tachypnea

        Tachycardia

        Respiratory distress

        Carbonaceous sputum

        Elevated carbon monoxide levels

        Blistering or edema of oropharynx

500

6 things to monitor in circumferential burns

Pulselessness

        Pallor

        Pain

        Paresthesia

        Paralysis

        Poikilothermy

Definitions

100

Replenishing bodily fluid lost through sweating, bleeding, fluid shifts or other pathologic processes.

Fluid resuscitation

200

Residual necrotic layers of skin that occur secondary to heat damage

Eschar

300

Excessive deposition of this leads to a thickening of scars

Collagen

400

Burn that covers the entire circumference of a limb

Circumferential burn

500

Inability to regulate body temperature

Poikilothermy

Rule of Nines

100

Front torso

18%

200

Front and back of right arm

9%

300

Back of head

4.5%

400

Front of right arm and entire right leg

23.5%

500

Face and entire left arm

13.5%