Bites and Burns

Question 1

Common pathogens to Dog and Cat bites

Answer 1

Pasteurella
S. aureus
S. viridans
Bacteriodes

Question 2

How to handle a domestic animal after a bite

Answer 2

Observe for 10 days and no vaccine

Question 3

How to handle a wild animal bite

Answer 3

Regard as rabid unless confirmed

RIG and Human Diploid Cell Vaccine

Question 4

Common pathogens from human bites

Answer 4

Eikenella
Staph and Strep
Treponema

Question 5

Manage bite wounds the same as you’d manage what other types of wounds?

Answer 5

Puncture wounds

Question 6

How to manage bite wounds

Answer 6

Debride and irrigate
Tetanus and Rabies
Antibiotics

Question 7

Name the 3 histopathologic zones of burn wounds

Answer 7

Zone of Coagulation
Zone of Stasis
Zone of Hyperemia

Question 8

What is the inside and burn zone?

Answer 8

Zone of coagulation

Question 9

What is the middle burn zone?

Answer 9

Zone of stasis

Question 10

What is the outside burn zone?

Answer 10

Zone of hyperemia

Question 11

The foot is approximately what % of the TBSA?

Answer 11

3.5%

Question 12

An injury to the epidermis and a portion of the dermis but not destroying the basal cell layer.

Painful blister with erythema

Answer 12

Superficial second degree burn

Question 13

Injury to much of the dermis and basal cell layer. Skin appendages are intact.

Dry, anesthetic, and mottled

Answer 13

Deep second degree burn

Question 14

Full thickness injury and includes skin appendages

Leathery, whitish to dark, thrombosed vessels and anesthetic

Answer 14

Third degree burn