DEFINITION
Sunburn is the clinical outcome of the contact or exposure of body heat. Burns has multiple causes, being commonly of accidental origin, work and home, especially in children.
Burns can be caused by fire, hot liquids, caustic (chemicals), electricity and sun.
A quick and successful action before a burn can save your life and in other cases, improve the prognosis and healing time of thermal trauma. Knowing well the etiology and pathophysiology of the burn can be able to make preventive treatment of multiple complications and consequences that can occur in these patients.
ASSESSMENT AND GRADING:
Is performed based on two parameters: Extent of burned surface area and degree of depth of the burn.
1. EXTENSION:
It is the first factor to consider in assessing the severity of a burn. To calculate it, is used as the simplest rule of nine of Wallace, which is divided by body surface in adults in 11 areas, each of which is 9%, or a multiple of nine percent, compared total body surface area. Thus estimates of the NEXT way: (In children the ratio is different)
You can help at certain times, to know that the palm represents 1% of the total body surface.
