NUR 213 Burns
- What is the most common cause of burns?
Answer Residential fires are common cause
kitchen fire, cigarettes that remain lit, portable heating equipment.
- Burns are any injury caused by exposure to?
Answer heat, chemicals, electricity, radiation.
- Why are the elderly at more risk for burns?
Older
Answer slower rxn, impaired mobility, dementia, thinner skin [more susceptible to deeper burns], may have pre-existing conditions to make healing more difficult.
- Why are school children more at risk for burns?
Children
Answer as they get older, they become more curious. Hot stove, flame on stove, playing with stove knobs, trying to get to the cookies in the oven.
- Why are teenagers more at risk for burns?
Teenagers
Answer experiment with fire, gasoline, hide they are smoking, more susceptible to superficial burns from tanning.
- precautions at home to prevent burns are?
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Answer Set water heater low, change battery of smoke detector with daylights savings.
- What can we find at work to help prevent burns?q
Answer MSDS-material safety data sheet.
- What is a thermal burn?
Answer Come from heat source. Can be dry heat or moist heat. Can inhale hot smoke or soot and can cause major problem with lungs, trachea.
- What are chemical burns?
Answer Chemical- the chemical itself can cause a burn or a combination of chemicals that mix can cause a burn or cause noxious fumes. These chemicals are found in the basement, under sink, storage area-may leak together.
- What are electrical burns?
Answer Can be caused by electricity or lightening. They have an iceberg affect, gets worse underneath.Will travel through the individual's body, from hand through to feet which means it's going through vital organs and the heart.
- What is an inhalation burn?
Answer Steam or chemicals inhaled. Mouth, esophagus, trachea, lungs can be affected.
- What is a Radiation burn?
Answer Radiation burns from radiation treatment for cancer treatment and malignancies [treat like a superficial burn]. Can also be from sun burn.
- 3 classification of burn are now called?
Answer Superficial.
Partial-thickness, which has
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-Superficial Partial-Thickness.-Deep Partial-Thickness.
Full-thickness.
- How far down the layers of skin do superficial burns reach?
Answer Epidermal layer.
- How do superficial burns look?
How long until they heal?
Answer Looks like sunburn. Burned skin remains intact, may start to peel, usually will peel when skin starts to regenerate.
Heals in 3-6 days
- How far down the layers of skin do partial thickness burns reach?
What does this layer contain?
Answer Partial thickness-Reaches into the entire dermal layer, will be warm to the touch.
The dermis has hair, blood vessels, nerve endings etc.
- Severe burn treatment stages are?
Answer Emergent and resuscitative stage. Acute stage.Rehabilitation stage.
- How long does the emergent and resusive stage last?
Answer 24-48 hours.
- Where does superficial partial thickness reach?
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