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Purpose of a dressing |
Covers an open wound and touches the wound, control bleeding, reduces infection
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Infection Symptoms
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Swelling, redness, warmth, throbbing pain, fever, lymph node swelling, red streaks toward the heart
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How to care for a blister
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Avoid risk of infection, minimize pain, cold water
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How to care for an open wound
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Wash with soap and water, flush with cold running water, use sterile dressing, apply antibiotic ointment to lubricate and reduce infection, change every 24 hours and change if wet
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DOTS
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Deformity, Open Wounds, Tenderness, Swelling
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Types of Burns
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Thermal (heat) Burns, Chemical, Electrical
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Care for burns
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2nd degree Burns -blisters (don't pop only if extremely painful and on live skin), run under cold water
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1÷ Rule
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Spotted Burns. Hand is 1÷
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1st degree burns
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Redness, mild swelling, tenderness, pain
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2nd degree burns
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Blisters, swelling, weeping of fluids, severe pain
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3rd degree burns
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Leathery, waxy, Pearly gray skin, you can see inside
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Go or no go?
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Rule of Nine, face, head, genitals
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Scalp Wounds
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pressure, bandage Cravat, control bleeding applying pressure, assume fracture
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TBI
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Traumatic Brain Injury
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MIBI
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. PERRL Pupils, nausea, vomiting, don't let them fall asleep
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Coup contracoup
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hit on one side and hits on the other side
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Diffuse Axonal
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Axal Spins
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Abdominal Wounds
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Dots (four quadrants) put pressure on tenderness
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