About burn treatment
Burns are a very common injury. Just follow the above first aid burn treatment tips and make sure you don’t start the treatment of the burn as any normal injury. Thermal burns occur when hot metals, scalding liquids, steam, or flames come in contact with the skin. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. The ‘rules of nine’ is a guide used to calculate the extent of a burn as a percentage of the body’s total surface area, and to assess what level of medical attention is required. The amount of damage that a burn can cause depends upon its location, its depth, and how much body surface area that it involves.
November 15th, 2011 Posted in General