Book Title: Wound Care Nursing
Chapter 13: Burns
Overview:
- Includes first aid techniques for appropriate wound care
- Criteria for assessing whether specialised burns treatment is required
- Discusses the important responses to burn injury
- Teaches how to estimate the burn area using Wallace’s ‘rule of nines’
- Includes the terminology used for describing burn wound depth
- Outlines how best to manage burn wounds in terms of cleansing the wound, dressing the wound, preventing infection, and more
Description:
Wound management in a burn-injured person is an evolving process. Clinical practice is dictated by the pathophysiology of the burn wound, the process of wound healing, and the factors that affect wound healing. This chapter provides information on the care of burn wounds to enable nurses to facilitate best outcomes for the person.
Topics:
- First aid
- Specialised burns treatment
- Response to burn injury
- Tissue destruction
- Burn wound oedema
- Estimation of burn area
- Wallace’s ‘rule of nines’
- Lund & Browder chart
- Palmar method
- Depth of burn wound
- Burn wound management
- Aims of care
- Blisters
- Eschar
- Wound cleansing
- Wound dressings
- Wound infection
- Management of superficial (epidermal) burns
- Management of superficial (dermal) burns
- Management of partial thickness (mid-dermal and deepdermal) burns
- Management of full-thickness burns
- Management of circumferential burns
- Management of burn itch
- Scar management
Speaker / Author:
Sheila Kavanagh
is a registered nurse and midwife who holds a degree in nursing and an operating room certificate. Sheila did her initial training at Whyalla Hospital (South Australia) where she also completed her midwifery training and worked in operating theatres. Following a family move to Adelaide (South Australia), Sheila commenced work at the Royal Adelaide Hospital Burns Unit as the unit operating-room nurse. She has been the nurse in charge of the unit since 1996. Sheila is an active member of the Australian & New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA), having served as state representative, treasurer, and vicepresident. She is also a member of ANZBA education committee and is a key instructor for the ANZBA’s national course in the emergency management of severe burns. Sheila was a member of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Burns Assessment team that was sent to Darwin to assist in the care of the survivors of the Bali bombing. In 2003, Sheila received a nursing excellence award in nursing clinical practice. She is one of the founders of the Julian Burton Burns Trust, which has been set up to raise money for the Royal Adelaide Burns Unit.
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