Burns

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Burns are a common presentation to the ED and can result in a significant degree or morbidity and mortality.

In this podcast we talk through the approach and treatment of burns along with some controversies in the literature regarding assessment of burn depth and fluid management. Enjoy!

References

The Parkland formula under fire: is the criticism justified? Blumetti J, et al. J Burn Care Res. 2008 Jan-Feb.

Mersey Burns for calculating fluid resuscitation volume when managing burns: NICE advice [MIB58] Published date: March 2016

SCANRCIT: Pain can’t be used to differentiate between partial and full thickness burns

Transcript

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0:00.0	And out of ten Rob, how many got it in?
0:10.6	I think you'd one get it in, amazingly.
0:13.1	It's been superb so far.
0:14.4	It's been nothing but an enjoyable experience, Simon.
0:17.1	Thank you.
0:17.9	But they also included in intubation.
0:20.6	Really? I didn't see that. Do they also included an intubation. I didn't see that.
0:21.9	Don't do this.
0:24.5	Welcome to the recess room podcast.
0:27.3	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:34.2	You're recording.
0:35.4	Lovely, job.
0:36.9	Oh yes.
0:37.9	Right.
0:42.1	So hi and welcome back to the recess room podcast.
0:43.4	I'm Simon Lang.
0:44.9	And my name's Rob Fenwick.
0:48.9	So Rob today is one of your topic recaps.
0:51.0	And we're going to be running through... We're going to be looking at burns today, Simon.
0:52.9	We're going to be looking at major burns. And we're going to be looking at some minor burns, which are really common presentations to emergency departments all over the UK.
1:00.0	All right, well, when most people think of burns, they think about assessing the depth, they think about fluid resuscitation, and they think about the worry that we've all got about an impending airway of destruction. What are the bits are we going to be running through? So I think it's really important that we've all got about an impending airway obstruction. What are the bits we going to be running through?
1:12.8	So I think it's really important that we need to consider, first of all, different types of
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