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Advanced Trauma Life Support ATLS Student Course Manual 2018

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CHAPTER 9 Outline<br />

Objectives<br />

iNtroduction<br />

pRimARy Survey and Resuscitation of Patients<br />

with BuRNs<br />

• Stop the Burning Process<br />

• Establish Airway Control<br />

• Ensure Adequate Ventilation<br />

• Manage Circulation with Burn Shock Resuscitation<br />

Patient Assessment<br />

• History<br />

• Body Surface Area<br />

• Depth of Burn<br />

Secondary Survey and Related Adjuncts<br />

• Documentation<br />

• Baseline Determinations for Patients with Major Burns<br />

• Peripheral Circulation in Circumferential Extremity Burns<br />

• Gastric Tube Insertion<br />

• Narcotics, Analgesics, and Sedatives<br />

• Wound Care<br />

• Antibiotics<br />

• Tetanus<br />

Unique Burn Injuries<br />

• Chemical Burns<br />

• Electrical Burns<br />

• Tar Burns<br />

• Burn Patterns Indicating Abuse<br />

Patient Transfer<br />

• Criteria for Transfer<br />

• Transfer Procedures<br />

Cold Injury: Local Tissue Effects<br />

• Types of Cold Injury<br />

• Management of Frostbite and Nonfreezing Cold Injuries<br />

Cold Injury: Systemic Hypothermia<br />

Teamwork<br />

Chapter Summary<br />

BibliogRAphy<br />

OBJECTIVES<br />

After reading this chapter and comprehending the knowledge<br />

components of the <strong>ATLS</strong> provider course, you will be able to:<br />

1. Explain how the unique pathophysiology of burn<br />

injury affects the approach to patient management<br />

when compared with other traumatic injuries.<br />

2. Identify the unique problems that can be<br />

encountered in the initial assessment of patients<br />

with burn injuries.<br />

3. Describe how to manage the unique problems that<br />

can be encountered in the initial assessment of<br />

patients with burn injuries.<br />

4. Estimate the extent of the patient’s burn injury,<br />

including the size and depth of the burn(s),<br />

and develop a prioritized plan for emergency<br />

management of the patient’s injuries.<br />

5. Describe the unique characteristics of burn injury<br />

that affect the secondary survey.<br />

6. Describe common mechanisms of burn injuries,<br />

and explain the impact of specific mechanisms on<br />

management of the injured patients.<br />

7. List the criteria for transferring patients with burn<br />

injuries to burn centers.<br />

8. Describe the tissue effects of cold injury and the<br />

initial treatment of patients with tissue injury from<br />

cold exposure.<br />

9. Describe the management of patients with hypothermia,<br />

including rewarming risks.<br />

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