i did a rotation in our regional burn unit which is situated in a regional pediatric hospital and takes both adults and children of all ages and burn types. it was the facility at which the skin...
Well, all burns get cleaned when they come in, regardless of whats on them under normal curcumstances, even tubed pts. So whether its a big burn that gets tubbed, or a little burn that just gets...
The cold water is the same priciple as the ice, twofold: the cold temperature of the ice or water can lower body temp very quickly, its surprising, even cold water will do it secondly, the tissue is...
clgmezzo replied to Driven Persistence's topic in Burn
We use a flowsheet on our burn patients when they enter our 1:1 critical stage and need close monitoring, its a lowsheet that our unit made that spe4cifically tracks everything important to our...
We LOVE students in our burn center, paramedic, nursing, medical, ANY, but i especially love the nursing students, you will get to see SO much, and ill tell you now-you will get SO much information,...
My apologies for offense, i was writing from a standpoint where i assumed that most persons in this forum were burn nurses. Rural hospitals are outlying, just as metropolitan ones are, I never...
For heaven sakes! one might think that i bashed rural hospitals into the ground. Outlying facilities are ANY other non burn center facilities, not just ones out in the country like near where i live....
We offer extensive outreach to all the hospitals in our 17 county area along with inservices for ER staff residents and anyone willing to listen. We also send out materials, and offer an "open door"...
This is aweful! Our unit has these patients frequently, and to me it sounds as if she was completely mistreated from the beginning. Xeroform is a good dressing, but certainly not the cetaphil lotion...
The burn center i work at was the first to have cultured skin, but we have stopped using it entirely because of its poor endurance and easy breakdown later in life, I wonder if the same problems are...
I had one woman who burned her children up purposely in a housefire, very susan smith-ish, new boyfriend, didnt want her kids-tried to pin it on th 6 year old playing with a lighter. The other is...
clgmezzo replied to nurse_lilyjaderose's topic in Burn
We use it for cauterization of wounds. Acticoat is something we use in our center, though it does stain the skin like crazy as well, we change it every 2 days, our surgeons like to see our wounds as...
burn nurses love to pick!!!! we pick dead skin all day long, lol, kind of like peeling a family member sun burn only on a different scale i guess!! Many type A's but since it takes a wierd sense of...
i was wondering if any of you have the new temporal ones in your facilities and use them, and what you think of them overall. I tend to use them as long as the pt is not sweaty or covered in dressings...