burns Flashcards
transparent film dressing
- semi-occlusive
- primary or secondary dressing
- reduces infection risk
- creates moist healing environment
hydrogel sheet dressing
- hydrates wound
- keeps bacteria out
- promotes autolytic debridement
alginate dressing
- primary wound care dressing
- can absorb large quantities of exudate
autolytic debridement
- body’s own enzymes break down nonviable tissue
- hydrogel sheet dressing to promote
mechanical debridement
- hydrotherapy
- wet-to-dry dressings
- wound irrigation followed by suction
autograft
transplanting someone’s own skin from unburned area to burned area
split-thickness graft
full epidermal & partial dermal layers & a % of fat layers from donor site
- graft survival is high
full thickness graft
- full thickness of epidermal & dermal layers & % of fat layers from donor site
- graft survival is less
- outcome better if graft adherence occurs
meshed graft
stretched to cover greater surface area
sheet graft
donor graft laid down as is
how is edema measured with a burn?
circumferential measurements (no volumeter)
when is scar management completed after a burn?
6-12 weeks after wound closure
when is the emergent phase of a burn?
0-72 hours after
xenografts
biologic dressing
- bovine skin, processed pig skin to protect skin from infection, debride, comfort during emergent phase
allograft
human cadaver skin
-protect skin from infection, debride, comfort during emergent phase
superficial/epidermal burn
1st degree
- superficial epidermis
- PAIN: min to mod
- BLISTERING: none
- min erytheme (redness)
- HEALING TIME: 3-7 days