Burning!

Mmmm, time for a quick look over of burn data and statistics. Its times like this that I wish I had a tutor to guide me in which articles to read. There are some good looking publications like The journal of Burn Care and Research, but sadly like so many journals, it is pay-for-view. I'm a little unwilling to pay at the moment, because I will get free access in a month, plus I don't know how much use it will be just now.

So I am left with searching for free sources. Harder, though I can only try.

Some of the basic advice is readily available from the World Health Organisation, from the NHS and also one from patient.co.uk. All say more or less the same thing - douse in water, prevent infection, elevate and seek help from someone who doesn't have to look things up. The people who don't have to look things up will then consider factors such as the depth of the burn, possible complications from smoke inhalation, anything relevant to the type of burn such as chemical and electrical burns.

This seems to be a good video from Youngstown State University which shows two senior nurses treating a patient who is in with ~40% body burns.

So, onto something juicily scientific. Types of burn.

Though firstly, I thought it amusing to show the beginning of my youtube search results for "different types of b...". Oddly, buns seems to come in long before burns do.

Aaaaanyway...




Articles used
http://journals.lww.com/burncareresearch/pages/default.aspx
http://www.who.int/surgery/publications/Burns_management.pdf
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Burns-and-scalds/Pages/Treatment.aspx
http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Burns-Assessment-and-Management.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDBXO9fmpmw