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Superficial Burn
- Involves only the epidermis
- The skin will appear pink to red and will be dry
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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
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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
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Eschar
The tough and leathery dead soft tissue formed in the full-thickness burn
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Circumferential Burn
Encircle a body area such as an arm, a leg, or the chest
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Rule of Nines
Standard way to quickly determine the amount of the body surface area percentage of a burn
page 817
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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
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Burn Sheet
Commercially prepared sterile, particle free, disposable sheet used to cover the entire body in severe burn injuries
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