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Question 21

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Which of the following chemicals must be brushed off the skin, then covered with oil?

A) Phenol
B) Sodium metal
C) Oleoresin capsicum
D) Dry lime

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Question 22

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Flash burns associated with electricity occur because:

A) air is a moderately good conductor of electricity, generating moderate heat.
B) air is an excellent conductor of electricity, generating moderate heat.
C) air is mildly resistant to the passage of electricity, generating only enough heat to cause superficial burns.
D) air is highly resistant to the passage of electricity, generating intense heat.

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Question 23

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Which of the following patient factors increases the criticality of the patient's burn injuries?

During which phase of a burn injury does extravasation of proteins, water, and electrolytes occur, resulting in edema and potential hypovolemia?

Your patient has circumferential full thickness burns of the thorax. He is intubated, and you have noticed an increase in resistance as you bag him. His skin is very tight and inflexible as you try to ventilate. Which of the following is required to improve this patient's ventilatory status?

Which of the following best describes the pathophysiology of most burns to the human body?

Which of the following accounts for the most severe thermal burns of the airway?

Which of the following represents the modified body surface area percentages in the "rule of nines" for pediatric patients?

The seriousness of burns in the pediatric population is put into perspective by realizing that burns are the ________ leading cause of death in children under age 12 years.

Your patient is a 23-year-old woman who was rescued from a burning house. She was asleep in a back bedroom when the fire started, and there was no smoke alarm. She has a pulse oximetry reading of 99 percent after receiving oxygen by nonrebreather mask. What is the most appropriate interpretation of this finding?

Which of the following agents is the best choice for analgesia in a patient with 9 percent partial thickness burns involving the right lower extremity?

Which classification of burn is characterized mainly by blisters?

Which of the following has contributed most significantly to the decline in U.S. burn mortality?

Which of the following is TRUE of the heat generated when electricity flows through the body?

The voltage of a bolt of lightning may be as much as ________ volts, and its temperature may reach ________ degrees Fahrenheit.

Patients who survive the first several days of a moderate to critical burn are MOST likely to die from which of the following complications?

An area of burned tissue that is not painful is MOST likely a ________ burn injury.

The first step for treating a patient who has been contaminated with dry lime is to:

You are assessing a 37-year-old woman who was rescued from an apartment fire. She has a harsh, stridorous, "brassy"-sounding cough productive of sooty sputum. Her eyebrows and the hair around her face are singed. Respirations = 28, heart rate = 108, and blood pressure = 124/84. You have a 30-minute transport time. Which of the following is the best intervention for this patient?

Contact with strong alkalis results in burns involving ________ necrosis of the tissue.