American Burn Association – Improving the lives of those affected by burn injury

American Burn Association – Improving the lives of those affected by burn injury

Burn Triage and Treatment of Thermal Injuries in a Radiation Emergency

• Introduction
• Basics of burn injuries
  • Key concepts
  • Burn depth: key descriptor and prognostic factor for burn injuries
  • Inhalation injury and pulmonary complications
  • Secondary Injuries / Early Complications
  • Prognosis and triage of burn injuries
• Emergency burn care
  • Rescue
  • Primary survey
  • Initiating resuscitation with fluids
• Secondary survey and resuscitation
  • About the secondary survey
  • Determination of percent total body surface area burned
  • Adjusting, Monitoring and Titrating Fluid Resuscitation
  • Wound care
• Preventing, monitoring and treating early burn complications including compartment syndromes and inhalation injury
• Extended burn care to recovery: burn excision and reconstruction
• Supportive care and burn critical care
• Treatment of burns in austere, mass casualty conditions
• American Burn Association

Caveats:

• This page describes the diagnosis and treatment of skin injury due to thermal effects.
• For skin injury due to radiation effects, see REMM's Cutaneous Radiation Syndrome page.
• For burn issues in large mass casualty incidents with austere conditions, see “Treatment of Burns in Austere, Mass Casualty Conditions” section on this page.

Note:

• Content on this version of the REMM burn page was created in collaboration with the American Burn Association.
• The key consultants include: Drs. Joshua Carson, Rachel Williams, Colleen M. Ryan, William Hickerson, and James C. Jeng, with assistance from Annette Matherly, R.N.
• See entire List of REMM consultants which includes list of burn consultants from prior versions of REMM.