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 | Media file 1: Partial- and full-thickness burns from a structure fire. Note facial involvement. |
 | Media file 2: Rule of nines for calculating burn area. |
 | Media file 3: Lund and Browder chart illustrating the method for calculating the percentage of body surface area affected by burns in children. |
 | Media file 4: Child with burns from a scald. Hot soup was spilled when the child grabbed the handle of a pot. Note the full-thickness burn to left upper part of the chest. Edema of the lips and blisters on the face and nose indicate second-degree burns of the face. |
 | Media file 5: Escharotomy to release the chest wall and allow for ventilation of the patient. |
 | Media file 6: 59-year-old physician with deep-seated bulla on middle finger after burning himself taking a hot bun out of oven. |
 | Media file 7: The American Burn Association has developed a set of criteria for burn center transfer. These criteria have been adopted by most emergency medical services. |
 | Media file 8: The size of the burn is best estimated by using a chart that corrects for the changes in body proportions with aging. |
 | Media file 9: Second-degree burns are often red, wet, and very painful. An enormous variability exists in their depth, their ability to heal, and their tendency to result in hypertrophic scar formation. |
 | Media file 10: Third-degree burns are usually leathery, dry, insensate, and waxy. These wounds do not heal. |
 | Media file 11: Management of burn blisters is controversial. Many can be left intact to facilitate comfort, while the underlying wound heals. Sometimes, blisters obscure full-thickness wounds, as shown here, but, usually, wounds underlying blisters are partial thickness. |
 | Media file 12: A clinically focused definition set describing burn wound infections. |
 | Media file 13: Burn wound cellulitis presents with increasing erythema, swelling, and pain in the uninjured skin around the periphery of the wound. |
 | Media file 14: Invasive burn wound infection implies that bacteria or fungi proliferating in burn eschar are invading the underlying viable tissues. These wounds display a change in color, new drainage, and, commonly, a foul odor. This infection can be life threatening. |
 | Media file 15: A large (and increasing) number of medications and membranes have been selected for use in burn wound management. |
 | Media file 16: If hand positioning and therapy are ignored while overlying burns heal, long-term suboptimal function may result. |
 | Media file 17: The depth of partial-thickness burns is routinely underestimated in the outpatient setting. |
 | Media file 18: A 2-year-old child is brought to the office for evaluation of a scald burn to the hand. |
 | Media file 19: Splinting a serious hand burn. |
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burns, thermal burns, thermal injury, heat burn, scalds, burn injury, burn treatment, contact burns, firework burns, fire deaths, treatment, diagnosis, symptoms
