decribe the treatment of burn patient?

Answer 1

For minor burns it is OK to hold the area under cold running water for about 15 minutes. For more major burns (bigger than the area of a credit card or where there is blistering or the skin is burnt away) you should seek medical advice. Cover the area with a clean (preferably sterile) cloth and go to your local casualty department, or if the burnt area is large, call an ambulance. Do not try to remove any burnt on clothing as this could make matters worse.

Answer 2

Burn patients require lots of treatments. Medically speaking from hospital point of view-

1st you have to calm the patient and make sure their airway is open and supported often times people who are burned are intubated due to the amount of smoke and soot they inhaled and also to keep the airway from swelling shut

2 you have to cool the skin burning and control pain, this is usually done by giving a narcotic like morphine or demerol.

3. You have to pump lots of fluids into the patient, this is due to the fact that the burned skin is sucking all the fluids from the rest of the body, I read not too long ago that the average 3rd degree burn takes several bags of IV solution a day up to about 20,000 mL's I believe.

4. There is a process called debridement, where they remove the old burned skin exposing the skin underneath, this is to remove the damaged tissue and help relive some of the risks for infection, people who are in fires usually get a tetnus shot for precaution and also get antibiotics. Burns are a very high risk for tetnus and infection.

5 The patient is made as comfortable as possible and skin is cared for.