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0:00taking a look at Burns Burns are going
0:02to have two different types of
0:04classifications Burns do fall under our
0:09uh emergencies or common emergencies
0:13and in their classifications not only
0:16are they classified by their location
0:19they're also classified by the body
0:22surface that is affected
0:24and then they're put into another
0:26classification of a first degree second
0:28degree or third degree type burn
0:32with Burns these can be electrical they
0:35can be chemical or they can be heat
0:37related
0:39how to treat a patient with a burn we're
0:41going to remove the patient from The
0:43Source making sure that we're protecting
0:45ourselves as well
0:47if you can flush that site with cold
0:50water
0:51if this is a patient that is has been in
0:56an accident and perhaps they're burning
0:57within their clothes we're not going to
1:00remove their clothing because we don't
1:02want to put them at risk of removing
1:04their clothing and also removing some of
1:06the burnt skin so what we can do is
1:08assist in monitoring the patient
1:10monitoring their Vital Signs observing
1:13their reactions and the rule of nines
1:16which we will talk about in the next
1:18slide will then be applied
1:21and classifications for our Burns we
1:23have the first degree second degree
1:25third degree of course third degree is
1:27going to be your most severe
1:30first degree has to do with the first
1:32layer of tissue that's going to be that
1:34epidermis very very top layer of tissue
1:37think sunburns that's first degree burn
1:42second degree takes us deeper into uh
1:45the body this is going to be the level
1:47of the dermis
1:49inside the germ as we can expect to see
1:52some blistering occur if we get to that
1:53second level for burns
1:57and then we have third degree and with
1:59third degree it involves muscle and
2:02possibly bone this could be burned all
2:05the way down to the past the fat tissue
2:08to the Bone
2:10it has a look of being dry and what we
2:14call charred here are the rule of nines
2:17and notice here when we're classifying
2:20how much of an area a patient was burned
2:22we would use the rule of Dimes
2:24everything in the body actually adds up
2:27to the number nine so with the head you
2:29actually have four and a half in the
2:31front and a 4.5 in the back if you were
2:34to add those two numbers together the
2:36entire head equates for the number nine
2:38or nine percent
2:41we can do the same thing with each leg
2:44each leg is really only worth 4.5 on
2:47each side so 4.5 on the front 4.5 on the
2:51back if we were declaring the level that
2:54someone was burned we could say if it
2:56was just the leg we could say they were
2:57burned over nine percent of their body
3:00and we're just um
3:02discussing really the patient's leg
3:04front and back