NUR 213 Burns

NUR 213 Burns
1. What is the most common cause of burns?
Answer
Residential fires are common cause
kitchen fire, cigarettes that remain lit, portable heating equipment.
2. Burns are any injury caused by exposure to?
Answer
heat, chemicals, electricity, radiation.
3. Why are the elderly at more risk for burns?
Older
Answer
slowerrxn, impaired mobility, dementia, thinnerskin [more susceptible to deeper burns], mayhave
pre-existing conditions to make healing more difficult.
4. Why are school children more at risk for burns?
Children
Answer
as they get older, they become more curious. Hot stove, flame on stove, playing with stove
knobs, trying to get to the cookies in the oven.
5. Why are teenagers more at risk for burns?
Teenagers
Answer
experiment with fire, gasoline, hide they are smoking, more susceptible to superficial burnsfrom
tanning.
6. precautions at home to prevent burns are?
Answer
Set water heater low, change battery of smoke detector with daylights savings.