Thermal And Electrical Injuries

Question 1

What is the other name of wet burn?

Answer 1

Scald

Question 2

Mention the characters of wet burn

Answer 2

1. 1st degree only.
2. Wet clothes.
3. Hair is not changed (color/appearance).
4. No soot and no high CO on the blood.
5. Line of demarcation is present.

Question 3

Mention the characters of the dry burns

Answer 3

1. All degrees may present.
2. Dry clothes (or even burned clothes).
3. Burned hair (changes in color and appearance “drum sticks”).
4. Soot is present and high level of CO in blood.
5. No line of demarcation.

Question 4

Factors affecting the severity of burns

Answer 4

1. Time of expusure (contact).
2. Temperature.
3. Location.
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4. Depth (degree).
5. Size (percentage).
6. Age of patient.
7. Other like location of burn, inhalation of gases, and type of burn.

Question 5

The shrinkage of body tissues and muscle due to dehydration caused by heating called

Answer 5

pugilistic attitude

Question 6

How to confirm that the patient was alive during burning

Answer 6

1. Soot deposition in the deep alvioli.
2. Redness (Hyperemia).
3. High Level of CO in blood.

Question 7

Mention three heat artifacts

Answer 7

1. Heat fracture.
2. Heat hematoma.
3. Skin splits.
   In addition, change in hair color and appearance If you specify race

Question 8

Signs of hypothermia

Answer 8

1. Pink color on the big joints.
2. Multible gastric ulceration (wischnewsky spot).
3. Hemorragic pancreatitis.
4. Frostbite.

Question 9

Mechanism of electrical death

Answer 9

1. Cardiac arrhythmia.
2. Paralysis of respiratory muscles.
3. Destruction of vital centers (respiratory center).

Question 10

The multiple high voltage injury cause special sign on the skin called

Answer 10

Crocodile skin

Question 11

The lesion caused by lightning called

Answer 11

Lichtenberg figure

Question 12

The special gastric ulcer in the hypothermic patient called

Answer 12

wischnewsky spot