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Acute or Intermediate Phase - CORRECT ANSWER -48-72 hours after injury Continue assessment & maintain respiratory & circulatory support Prevention of infection Provide wound care, pain management, & nutritional support Burn and Wound Care - CORRECT ANSWER -Wound Healing: Hydrotherapy Use of ...

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MEDSURG 2 NUR 265 Exam 3-Burns Significant

Questions with Appropriate Answers Revised,

Approved and Graded A++

Acute or Intermediate Phase - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -48-72 hours after injury


Continue assessment & maintain respiratory & circulatory support

Prevention of infection

Provide wound care, pain management, & nutritional support


Burn and Wound Care - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Wound Healing: Hydrotherapy


Use of topical agents: Anything with sliver

Wound debridement: natural, mechanical, surgical

Wound dressing, dressing changes, & skin grafting

Burns less than 25% TBSA produce primarily a local response

Burns more than 25% produce a local & systemic response & are considered major burns

Systemic response includes release of cytokines & other mediators into the systemic circulation

Fluid shifts & results in decreased tissue perfusion & organ dysfunction - CORRECT ANSWER

✔✔ -Physiologic Changes with Burns


Check pulses - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -To prevent compartment syndrome and DVT

, Classification of Burns - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Superficial Partial-Thickness (1st Degree)


Deep Partial-Thickness (2nd Degree)

Full-Thickness (3rd Degree)


Effects of Major Burn Injuries - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Fluid & electrolyte shifts;

Cardiovascular effects; Pulmonary injury (Upper airway, Inhalation below the glottis, Carbon

monoxide poisoning, Restrictive defects); Renal & GI alterations; Immunologic alterations;

Effect upon thermoregulation


Emergent or Resuscitative Phase - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Biggest intervention: Prevention

of infection!

Rapid transport to ED

Begin fluid resusitation!!! (to maintain tissue perfussion)

Insert foley catheter

Patients with burns exceeding 25% should have an NG tube inserted & placed to suction

Patients with electrical burns should be placed on an ECG monitor

Address pain! Only IV medications should be administered

Fluid re-enters the vascular space from the interstitial space

Hemodilution

Increased urinary output

Sodium is lost with diuresis = Hyponatremia

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