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The Wallace rule of nines is a tool used in pre-hospital and emergency medicine to estimate the total body surface area (BSA) affected by a burn.In addition to determining burn severity, the measurement of burn surface area is important for estimating patients' fluid requirements and determining hospital admission criteria.
The first half of the fluid is given within eight hours from the burn incident, and the remaining over the next 16 hours. Only area covered by second-degree burns or greater is taken into consideration, as first-degree burns do not cause hemodynamically significant fluid shift to warrant fluid replacement. [5]
The score is an index which takes into account the correlative and causal relationship between mortality and factors including advancing age, burn size, the presence of inhalational injury. [2] Studies have shown that the Baux score is highly correlative with length of stay in hospital due to burns and final outcome. [3]
The Lund and Browder chart is a tool useful in the management of burns for estimating the total body surface area affected. It was created by Dr. Charles Lund, Senior Surgeon at Boston City Hospital, and Dr. Newton Browder, based on their experiences in treating over 300 burn victims injured at the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston in 1942.
A 60-year-old woman received third-degree burns walking in a thermal area in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming this week, according to park officials.
Jay Leno says he suffered third-degree burns and may need skin grafts after a scary incident at his garage.The famed comedian and former host of The Tonight Show spoke to TMZ from his hospital bed ...
Thermal burns are one of the most common early childhood injuries. [11] In the United States, burns are the third most common cause of accidental death among children. [22] Nearly 96,000 children around the world died as a result of thermal burns in 2004, [6] and 61,400 died in 2008 from thermal injuries. [9]
The comedian and classic car lover, 72, may need skin grafts, he told TMZ on Monday night from his hospital bed.