SOLUTION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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●● Severity of burn depends on.
Answer: Temperature duration of contact and type of tissue injured
●● Most burn injuries.
Answer: Preventable
●● Thermal burn.
Answer: Burn caused by flame scald hot object or flash fire
●● Chemical burn.
Answer: Burn caused by acids or alkalis
●● Electrical burn.
Answer: Most severe Burn caused by electric current producing deep
tissue damage
●● Inhalation burn.
Answer: Burn caused by breathing hot air smoke or toxic chemicals
, ●● Smoke inhalation injury.
Answer: Major predictor of mortality in burn patients
●● Types of inhalation injury.
Answer: Carbon monoxide poisoning above glottis below glottis
●● Carbon monoxide poisoning.
Answer: CO replaces oxygen on hemoglobin causing hypoxia
●● Severe CO poisoning sign.
Answer: Cherry red skin
●● Treatment for CO poisoning.
Answer: 100 percent oxygen
●● Hyperbaric oxygen with burns.
Answer: Contraindicated because delays burn care
●● Electrical burn complication.
Answer: Cardiac arrhythmias