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Hi. My name is Stephanie Sayles and this is my Core 2 presentation over burns.
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Now, you are probably wondering why I decided to pick Burns from the long list of options. Well I have been the Senior Administrative Assistant for the Burn Unit at Nebraska Medicine for the past nine months and it has been a very eye-opening experience for me. I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to learn more about burns. There are different sizes of Burns that are treated ranging from burning the tips of your fingers on an iron to a large house fire. A term that is used a lot in the care of burn patients is TBSA, otherwise known as total body surface area. This describes the body surface areas of different areas of the body and the …show more content…
The first one is an open flame burn and this will occur when there is an open flame like a fire pit or house fire. The second is a flash burn. This will occur when there is a flash of fire possibly when there is gasoline or lighter fluid poured on material and a flame hits it there will be a flash of fire that will burn the patient usually on the face and sometimes their hands, arms, and upper body. The next is an electrical burn. These burns will happen when there is an electric curtain that hits the patient’s skin, even though pieces of clothes. The next is a scald burn and these we see happen a lot from kitchen and bathroom accidents. A lot of our pediatric patients come to us with scald burns either from accidentally having hot liquid scald them in the kitchen or bath tubs. Chemical burns occur when a patient comes encounter with strong chemicals like car batteries, bleach, floor stripper, and acid. The last type of burn is frostbite, which is a type of cold injury the ABA recognizes. This will happen when a patient is outside is very cold temperatures and their tips of fingers and/or toes will turn white and blister. Eventually in a few days, the ends will start turning black and will result in amputation of fingers and/or …show more content…
He would develop his own surgical burn treatments, which would include wound debridement. Wound debridement is the “removal of foreign material and dead or damaged tissue”. He would also apply a breathable compressive dressing after his procedures. With this new knowledge of burn treatment, it would reduce the chances of infection, promote healing, and improve rehabilitation. There are different variations of this burn treatment that are used today, almost 200 years after he passed. Medical and surgical approaches for burn care didn’t start appearing in medical textbooks until the end of the 19th century. Some of the standardization towards the care of burns has only happened in the last 20 years. The first successful skin graft was an Autograph procedure during World War 1 done by Dr. Harold Gillies in the U.K. Dr. Gillies’ early skin transplantation set the stage for future advancement in reconstructive surgeries for burn patients. Burn centers today have a wide variety of team members from different department that care for burn patients ranging from plastic surgeons, nursing, dietitian, speech therapy, physical and occupational therapy, pharmacy, and social
Hi. My name is Stephanie Sayles and this is my Core 2 presentation over burns.
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Now, you are probably wondering why I decided to pick Burns from the long list of options. Well I have been the Senior Administrative Assistant for the Burn Unit at Nebraska Medicine for the past nine months and it has been a very eye-opening experience for me. I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to learn more about burns. There are different sizes of Burns that are treated ranging from burning the tips of your fingers on an iron to a large house fire. A term that is used a lot in the care of burn patients is TBSA, otherwise known as total body surface area. This describes the body surface areas of different areas of the body and the …show more content…
The first one is an open flame burn and this will occur when there is an open flame like a fire pit or house fire. The second is a flash burn. This will occur when there is a flash of fire possibly when there is gasoline or lighter fluid poured on material and a flame hits it there will be a flash of fire that will burn the patient usually on the face and sometimes their hands, arms, and upper body. The next is an electrical burn. These burns will happen when there is an electric curtain that hits the patient’s skin, even though pieces of clothes. The next is a scald burn and these we see happen a lot from kitchen and bathroom accidents. A lot of our pediatric patients come to us with scald burns either from accidentally having hot liquid scald them in the kitchen or bath tubs. Chemical burns occur when a patient comes encounter with strong chemicals like car batteries, bleach, floor stripper, and acid. The last type of burn is frostbite, which is a type of cold injury the ABA recognizes. This will happen when a patient is outside is very cold temperatures and their tips of fingers and/or toes will turn white and blister. Eventually in a few days, the ends will start turning black and will result in amputation of fingers and/or …show more content…
He would develop his own surgical burn treatments, which would include wound debridement. Wound debridement is the “removal of foreign material and dead or damaged tissue”. He would also apply a breathable compressive dressing after his procedures. With this new knowledge of burn treatment, it would reduce the chances of infection, promote healing, and improve rehabilitation. There are different variations of this burn treatment that are used today, almost 200 years after he passed. Medical and surgical approaches for burn care didn’t start appearing in medical textbooks until the end of the 19th century. Some of the standardization towards the care of burns has only happened in the last 20 years. The first successful skin graft was an Autograph procedure during World War 1 done by Dr. Harold Gillies in the U.K. Dr. Gillies’ early skin transplantation set the stage for future advancement in reconstructive surgeries for burn patients. Burn centers today have a wide variety of team members from different department that care for burn patients ranging from plastic surgeons, nursing, dietitian, speech therapy, physical and occupational therapy, pharmacy, and social