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Burns
Burns
Characteristics
Classification Cause Healing
Appearance Sensation Scarring
time
Ultraviolet light,
Dry and red;
Superficial very short flash
blanches with Painful 3 to 6 days None
burn (flame
pressure
exposure)
Blisters (easily
unroofed); wet or
waxy dry; variable Severe
Deep partial- Scald (spill), color (patchy to Perceptive of More than (hypertrophic)
thickness burn flame, oil, grease cheesy white to pressure only 21 days risk of
red); does not contracture
blanch with
pressure
Adapted with permission from Mertens DM, Jenkins ME, Warden GD. Outpatient burn management. Nurs Clin North Am
1997;32:343–64, Clayton MC, Solem LD. No ice, no butter. Advice on management of burns for primary care physicians.
Postgrad Med 1995;97(5):151–5,159–60,165, and Peate WF. Outpatient management of burns. Am Fam Physician
1992;45:1321–30.