NURSING 3TT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Hypovolemia, Total Body Surface Area, Eschar
8 Apr 2017
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Two commonly used guides for determining total body surface area (tbsa) affected: Lund-brower chart; this chart is considered more accurate because patient"s age, in. Rule-of-nines chart: considered adequate for intial assessment of an adult patient with proportion to relative body-area size, is taken into account burn injury. Treatment of burns is related to the severity of the injury. Severity is determined by: (a) depth of burn, Burns can be partial-thickness or full-thickness; they are also defined by degrees (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th) If there is significant damage to the dermis (i. e. full-thickness burn), not enough skin cells remain to regenerate new skin. A permanent, alternative source of skin is then needed (b) extent of burn calculated in percentage of total body surface area, Extent of a burn is often revised after edema has subsided and demarcation of the zones of injury have occurred (c) location of burn, and.
