Emergency Care: Burn injury

Every one are familiar with burns. A burns are injury that result from heat, chemical agents, or radiations. It can vary in size, depth, and even severity of the damaged area. Burn is categorize according to depth or degree. It may be a first-degree, second-degree, or third-degree burn.

First-degree burns can be result from over exposure to the sun, contact with hot objects, and boiling of hot water or steam. Other sign of first-degree burns is redness or discoloration of the skin, mild swelling, and pain. Healing is good.

Second-degree burn is deeper, red, and blistered. The surfaces are wet due to the loss of plasma through the damaged layers of skin. Deep sunburn is the result of this injury, contact with hot liquids, and flash burns from gasoline, kerosene, and other products. This degree burn is more painful.

Third-degree burns deeper destruction's. A third-degree burn look white or charred. The same third-degree and deep second-degree burns. there are coagulation of the skin and will cause of destruction of red blood cells. they can be caused by flames, ignited clothing, immersion in hot water, or contact with hot objects or electricity.