Essay on How to Treat a Burn

The last, but yet most important aspect one must look at is the fact that your long term health could be affected by smoke damage from the burns. The top five components of potential health hazards are: acrolein, benzene, carbon monoxide,

The car ride to Iowa City, my mom explained more in detail on what happened. There was an LP leak, and it blew up, the Fire Marshal was unable to determine. It flew him across the room onto a brick wall and melted all his hair, clothes, and skin. He walked up the stairs. He got himself up the stairs and was only complaining about his legs hurting, even though skin was dripping off of his arms. Third-degree burns don’t have much of a feeling when it happens, but first and second degree always burn.

What should you do if a burn were to occur on you or your lab partner?

Be careful not to cut yourself with sharp knives, or burn yourself with hot oil or hot water.

Burns- don’t cover the area with anything, minor burn run cold water over the area for 10 mins, major burns-seek immediate medical

The emergency department RN evaluates Harmony and determines the percentage of body surface burned according to the Rule of Nines. Her injuries include deep partial-thickness and full-thickness burns on her lower abdomen and on both of her anterior and posterior lower legs.

In this book I have learned many things about severe burns. I learned that you sometimes have to wear a mask to keep your skin from getting puffy and hard. A few years ago I had a friend that fell in a fire and burned her leg pretty bad. She had to wear a brace that was just like the mask Kelly wore but for a leg and she had to wear it for 1-2 years because of how severe her burns where. There is lots of things to know about burns and how they can affect your life if you are burned.

• Keep your rash covered with a loose bandage (dressing). Wear loose-fitting clothing to help ease the pain of material rubbing against the

They began telling them that the skin is an important organ. The skin has many layers that can be damaged when burns happen. According to Marieb, E.N., & Hoehn, K. (2014), the layers that are affected in 2nd and 3rd degree burns are; stratum corneum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basale, stratum corneum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basale, papillary layer, & reticular layer. In addition, they began telling them more about the skin. The skin has an epidermis and a dermis. In the epidermis, there are cells that have different functions; Keratin Cells give the epidermis its protective properties, melanocytes form melanin, dendritic cells ingest foreign substances, which helps our immune system and tactile cells are apart of touch Marieb, E.N., & Hoehn, K. (2014). They also went on to tell her that if the burns that she experienced happened to a one year-old infant, that the baby would have experienced 10.5% of the body burned. This time the doctors used the Lund-Browder Chart. 50% of the babies anterior(3.25%) & posterior(3.25%) thorax totaled to 6.5% and the anterior(2%) and posterior(2%) upper arm totaled to 4%=10.5%. Once the doctors finished explaining the skin and burns to Nancy and her grandson, they continued to treat her

If you can, put out the fire. However, do not under any circumstances use water. If you are wet or if you throw water on the fire, you could get yourself electrocuted.

12. When treating a serious wound, remove any clothing and wash the area around the burn.

4. The client is in severe pain. What is the drug of choice for pain relief following burn injury, and how should it be given?

You had a serious burn. This includes burns to the face, neck, hands, or genitals, or burns greater than the size of your palm anywhere

30. The most common type of instrument used to inflict contact burns in child abuse cases is: C

Surgical smoke is generated during the cutting or coagulation of tissue by a wide variety of devices including laser, vessel sealing devices and electro cautery. Quantity of smoke generated is variable based on the amount of tissue, open or closed procedure, device utilized and functional temperature of the device. The contents of the smoke generated contain numerable volatile organic compounds. Several carcinogenic particles have been isolated in surgical smoke. Both viral and bacterial components have been identified in smoke particles. The size of particles in surgical smoke is predominantly smaller than 2.5µM. Inhaled small particles have known negative health effects. Smoke temperature was not identified as an evaluated vector of risk in the literature. The literature does not definitively link surgical smoke exposure to injury or disease. Preventing workplace exposure to tobacco smoke has reduced mortality. Operating room personnel are likely at risk from chronic exposure to toxins, small particle inhalation and possible infectious transmissions from smoke. Smoke evacuation systems can provide