Seconds count, when burns occur. Burns need to be cooled immediately. Otherwise, the heat will continue to destroy the surrounding and underlying tissue, and may even progress into a second or third degree burn. This will present serious complications for the patient both in cost and on-going treatment.
How To Treat A Burn
Here are four critical steps you should take to treat a burn:
1 Immediately stop the burning process
2 Cool the burn, but don’t overcool the patient
3 Provide pain relief
4 Cover and protect the burn area against contamination
It is actually recommended that you don’t use ice. It can cause more damage and slow the healing process.1 It is recommended instead you use a burn dressing. Burn dressings are a gelatinized water mix designed to perform the four critical steps for burn management in one application. Because of their gelatinous nature, they seal the burn from further contamination, they cool the burn site and relieve pain by heat transfer into themselves, and the fluids on the burn site cannot soak into the dressing nor can they evaporate through them. And finally, as the burn site cools down, the dressing warms up, leaving the site covered by a warm dressing, helping to prevent hypothermia.
Burn Dressing will absorb temperatures which is extremely important. The additional gel within the burn gel pouch can be left on the wound for up to four hours prior to receiving further medical treatment if necessary.
Benefits of burn dressings
• Provides controlled cooling by convection, not evaporation
• Acts as a heat exchanger
• Absorbs heat throughout the gel contact are
• Conforms to the burn surface, providing total cooling contact
• Does not affect core body temperature or contribute to hypothermia
• Stops the burning process
• Portable—on the scene—when seconds count!
• Cools the burn, dissipates heat
• Provides pain relief
• Easy to use
• Evaporates slowly
• Use on any burn
• Non-adherent, easy to remove
• Covers and protects against contamination
• Helps prevent infection
• Won’t irritate the eyes, nose or mouth
All burns should be treated with concern. It is important to keep in mind the golden rule of burn management: If someone has a burn on his or her body exceeding the size of the palm of his or her own hand, where blisters are present, burns to genitalia, face or to any flexion point, this person should seek medical attention. All electrical burns require medical attention.
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