🔥Burns

Different degrees of burns:

• 1st Degree: Least severe, superficial, equivalent to sunburn

• 2nd Degree: Moderate to severe pain, red small blisters

• 3rd Degree: Major, deep into muscle/fat, general loss of feeling at center of burn

Symptoms:

• 1st Degree: red irritated skin, warm and tender to the touch, minor pain, minor swelling, skin may feel dry and tight.

• 2nd Degree: intensely red and swollen, large painful blisters, wetness from leaking blisters, sever pain, sensitive, may be discolored, and may have other symptoms like nausea, vomiting, fever and chills.

• 3rd Degree: leathery skin, dry skin, skin discoloration of white - black - bright red, swelling, blisters, shiny moist skin, may have little to no pain due to nerve endings being destroyed, difficulty breathing, unconscious from shock, and shock.

Heart Rate: may be elevated or lowered due to trauma

Respiratory Distress: shallow breathing, hyper-ventilation, short breaths

Diaphoretic: Pale, sweating heavily

Altered state of consciousness

What happens on scene:

• Vitals check

• IVs

• Cleaning with saline

• Add burn creams

• Loosely wrapping with saline soaked gauze

• Clothing removal