Chapter 29

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Superficial Burn
- Involves only the epidermis
- The skin will appear pink to red and will be dry
Partial-Thickness Burn
Involves not only the epidermis but also portions of the dermis
- Superficial Partial-Thickness Burn: pink and moist skin, thin-walled blisters
- Deep: red and blanched skin, thick walled blisters rupture
Full-Thickness Burn
- Involves all the layers of the skin
- The skin will become dry, hard, tough, and leathery and may appear white and waxy to dark brown or black and charred
Eschar

The tough and leathery dead soft tissue formed in the full-thickness burn
Circumferential Burn

Encircle a body area such as an arm, a leg, or the chest
Rule of Nines

Standard way to quickly determine the amount of the body surface area percentage of a burn

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Rule of Ones

An alternative way to determine the BSA estimate is to compare it to the patient's palm surface area, which equals approximately 1 percent of BSA
Burn Sheet

Commercially prepared sterile, particle free, disposable sheet used to cover the entire body in severe burn injuries