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SB82 Burns - loosely taken from Fiser's ABSITE review

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Sensory difference between superficial and deep second degree burns   Superficial is painful, deep has decreased sensation  
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Admission criteria for burned patients   2nd/3rd degree > 10% in ages <10 and > 50; 2nd/3rd degree >20% otherwise; 2nd/3rd degree burns to hands / feet / face / genitalia / perineum / major joints; 3rd degree burns > 5%; electrical; chemical; inhalational injury; suspected child abuse/neglect  
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Most common type of burn ___________   Scald  
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Use of colloid within the 1st 24 hours after burn can cause complications in this organ system __________   Pulmonary  
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How quickly after burn should an escharotomy be performed, if indicated?   Within 4-6 hours  
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Child abuse accounts for what percentage of burns in children? ____________   Fifteen  
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Lung injury from burn is NOT caused by heat but by ________________   Carbonaceous materials and smoke  
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Risk factors for airway injury with burn include ___________   Alcohol use, enclosed space, trauma, rapid combustion, extremes of age, delayed extrication  
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Signs / symptoms of possible airway injury   Facial burns, wheezing, carbonaceous sputum  
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The most common infection in burn patients ____________   Pneumonia  
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Most common cause of death after inhalational injury ______________   Pneumonia  
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Which produce deeper burns, acid or alkali solutions, and how?   Alkali, through liquefaction necrosis  
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What effect do acid burns produce? ___________   Coagulation necrosis  
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Treatment for hydrofluoric acid burns ______________   Topical calcium  
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A patient with an electrical burn has decreased UOP, increased creatinine, and normal CVP. What is the likely cause of his renal failure? _________   Rhabdomyolysis  
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What is the cause of cardiopulmonary arrest after a lightning strike?   Electrical paralysis of the brainstem  
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Equation for the daily CALORIC need of burn patients   25 kcal/kg/day + (30 kcal x %burn)  
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Equation for the daily PROTEIN need for burn patients   1g protein / kg / day + (3g x %burn)  
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What is the best source of non-protein calories in burn patients? __________   Glucose  
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How quickly should burn wounds be excised?   Within 72 hours  
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What electrolyte abnormality may occur during burn surgery, and what medication used by anesthesia may potentiate it?   Hyperkalemia, potentiated by succinylcholine  
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Skin grafts to a burn wound are contraindicated if a culture swab of the wound is positive for what?   Beta-hemolytic strep or bacteria > 10^5  
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Allografts undergo what process prior to rejection? _________   Vascularization  
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How long can allografts last?   2-4 weeks  
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How long can xenografts last?   2 weeks  
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What are the goals during each burn surgery for blood loss, percentage of skin excised, and number of hours in the OR?   < 1 L blood loss, < 20% skin excised, and < 2 hours in the OR  
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Most common reason for skin graft loss ____________   Seroma or hematoma  
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Treatment for facial burns   Topical antibiotics for 2 weeks, followed bu full-thickness skin grafts for non-healed areas (unmeshed)  
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Treatment for superficial hand burns   ROM exercises, with splinting in a functional position if there is too much edema  
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Treatment for deep hand burns   Immobilization for 7 days, full-thickness skin grafts, physical therapy  
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Treatment for palmar burns   Splint in extension for 1 week; week 2 place full-thickness non-meshed autograft  
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Treatment for genital burns   Antibiotics for 2 weeks, meshed grafts  
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Most common organism in burn infections __________   Pseudomonas  
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Burn infections are more common with burn wounds greater than __________ %   Thirty  
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Immune problems found in burn patients   Impaired granulocyte chemotaxis and impaired cell-mediated immunity  
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Side effects of silvadene in burn wounds   Neutropenia and thrombocytopenia  
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Silvadene is contraindicated in patients with G6PD deficiency due to risk of ____________   Methemoglobinemia  
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Silvadene is effective for treatment of this organism ____________   Candida  
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Silvadene is INEFFECTIVE for treatment of this organism _____________   Pseudomonal (and other Gram-negative rods)  
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Side effects of silver nitrate use __________   Electrolyte imbalances  
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Silver nitrate is INEFFECTIVE against what organisms? ____________   Pseudomonas (and other Gram-negative rods)  
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Sulfamylon may cause metabolic acidosis through what mechanism? _________   Inhibition of carbonic anhydrase  
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Which topical burn wound medication has good eschar penetration? _____________   Sulfamylon  
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Which topical burn wound medication is good for burned areas overlying cartilage? _______________   Sulfamylon  
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Burn wound sepsis is usually due to this organism _____________   Pseudomonas  
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Another name for sulfamylon _____________   Mafenide sodium  
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Most common VIRAL infection in burn wounds ____________   HSV  
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Gastric ulcer that occurs with burns __________   Curling’s ulcer  
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Highly-malignant squamous cell carcinoma that arises in chronic, non-healing burn wounds or unstable scars ______________   Marjolin’s ulcer  
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Hypertrophic scars usually occur in what time frame after a burn?   3-4 months  
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What is the cause of hypertrophic scars? _____________   Neovascularity  
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Hypertrophic scars are more likely to occur under what conditions?   Deep thermal injuries that take >3weeks to heal, contraction and epithelial spread or across flexor surfaces  
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How long should you wait before operating on hypertrophic scars? _________   1-2 years  
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Treatment for TEN   Prevent wound dessication with topical antimicrobials and xenografts  
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What medication should you avoid in patients with TEN or Stevens-Johnson syndrome? ___________   Steroids  
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