Burns: Healing, Management, PT Goals Flashcards
Epidermal healing:
Retention of ____ cells allows for epithelialization to occur
Viable
Epidermal healing:
Epithelial cells grow and proliferate, migrate to cover the ____
Wound
Epidermal healing:
Protection of _____ cells is critical
Epithelial
Epidermal healing: Loss of _____ glands can result in drying and cracking of wound; protection with moisturizing creams is important
Sebaceous
Dermal healing: Results in ____ formation (injured tissue is replaced by ___ ____)
Scars are initially ___ or ____, later become white
Scar
CT
Red, purple
Phases of healing: Inflamm phase: characterized by what 5 things? Lasts how many days?
Red, edema, warm, pain, dec ROM
3-10 days
Phases of healing: Proliferative, granulation, fibroblastic phase: lasts how many days?
Next 10-14 after inflamm
Phases of healing: Proliferative, granulation, fibroblastic phase:
What are the 4 primary events?
Angiogenesis
Granulation formation
Wound contraction
Epithelialization
Phases of healing: Proliferative, granulation, fibroblastic phase:
Fibroblasts synthesize collagen, GAGs and elastin. Type ___ collagen is initially deposited and later replace with type __ collagen and scar tissues
III
I
Phases of healing: Proliferative, granulation, fibroblastic phase:
________ are responsible for wound contraction in dermal tissues
Myofibroblasts
Phases of healing: Maturation phase:
Tissue remodeling lasts up to ____ years
2
Phases of healing: Maturation phase:
Normal mature scar is soft, _____, and ____
Takes over a _____ to occur
White, flat
Year
Phases of healing: Maturation phase:
At _____ weeks, scar is immature (bright pink)
6-12
Phases of healing: Maturation phase:
Hypertrophic scar may result: raised scar that stays within the boundaries of the burn wound and is ___, _____, ___
Red
Raised
Firm
Phases of healing: Maturation phase:
Keloid scar may result: raised scar that extends _____ boundaries of the original burn wound and is ___, ____, ____. More common in young ____ and those with ____ skin
Beyond
Red, raised, firm
Women, dark
Phases of healing: Maturation phase:
Hypotrophic scar: ____ and _______ below the surrounding skin
Flat and depressed
Burn Management:
Emergency care: Immersion in ____ water. If less than half the body is burn and injury is immediate, _____ ______ may also be used
Cold
Cold compress
Burn Management:
Emergency care:
Cover burn with _____ bandage or ____ ____
NO _____ or _____
Sterile
Clean cloth
Ointments or creams
Burn Management: Medical Management:
Asepsis and wound care
1. Remove ______ clothing
2. Wound _______
3. Topical medications (_______ agents): reapplied __ to ___ times daily
Ointments: Bacitracin, Polymyxin B, and Neomycin
Silver sulfadiazine: common topical agent. Avoid at _____ pregnancy, on infants less than ____ months and those with sulfa drug allergies
Sulfamylon: penetrates through _____. Avoid with sulfa drug allergies
Charred Cleansing Antibacterial, 1-3 times Term pregnancy, less than 2 months Eschar
Burn Management: Medical Management:
Asepsis and wound care: Dressings
Prevent ______ contamination, prevents ____ loss, and protects the wound
May additionally limit _____
Dressings include silver-impregnated, hydrogen’s, petroleum impregnated, and gauze dressings
Bacterial, fluid
ROM
Burn Management: Medical Management:
Establish and maintain _____, adequate ____, and resp function
A/W
Oxygenation
Burn Management: Medical Management:
Monitor: ____, serum _____ _____, ____ output, ___
___ function: provide nutritional support
ABGs, electrolyte levels, urinary, VS
GI
Burn Management: Medical Management: Pain relief (\_\_\_\_\_)
Morphine
Burn Management: Medical Management:
Prevention and control of infection:
______ and ______
____ pxns
Tetanus prophylaxis and antibiotics
STANDARD
Burn Management: Medical Management:
Fluid replacement therapy:
Prevention and control of _______
_____ fluid and _____ replacement
Shock
Post shock
Fluid