What are burns?
BURNS CAUSES:
Burns can be defined as any injury to tissues of the body caused by heat, electricity, friction, chemicals, radiation, gases and fuel.
The extent of the injury is determined by the length of exposure to the causative agent and nature of that agent.
The survival of the patient is related to the extent and degree of burn and the age of the patient.
Approximately half of burn injuries are scalds.
Injuries to the tissue resulting from the application of heat can cause partial or complete destruction of the skin and underlying tissues.
DEPTH OF BURN:
SUPERFICIAL PARTIAL THICKNESS
Only the epidermis is involved.
The skin surface is unbroken.
There is no loss of tissue but there is pain.
Treatment:
The epidermis and part of the dermis is destroyed.
The skin blisters and the surrounding areas is usually flushed and swollen.
Blisters may develop several hours after the accident.
It is normally very painful.
Treatment:
The full thickness of the skin is penetrated, the epidermis, dermis and underlying structures such as fat, muscle, tendons and in some cases up to the bone level.
The areas appear charred and are characterized by a dry leathery appearance.
Veins may be visible and thromboses may occur.
Sensory nerve endings in the dermis are destroyed and the patient is unlikely to feel any pain except at the wound edges.
Full thickness burns are normally caused by immersion in hot liquids, flames, electricity or chemicals.
The patient will be in a status of shock.
Start with SeptiCure® Burn Dressing as soon as possible to deslough the wound.
Treatment:
SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressing.
The skin consists of the following layers:
The dermal papillae play a significant role in wound healing.
The mountains act as areas of massive blood supply in wounds, while the valleys of epidermis act as regions of re-growth in superficial wounds leading to rapid repair.
To function properly, fibroblasts need nutrients and oxygen from the blood supply and the presence of ferrous iron, Vitamin C and Zinc substances.
If these are lacking, collagen synthesis is slowed or in server cases halted.
This can occur when infecting bacteria complete with them for nutrients.
SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressings revolutionizes wound and burn treatment by promoting natural healing:
Burns can be defined as any injury to tissues of the body caused by heat, electricity, friction, chemicals, radiation, gasses and fuel.
The extend of the injury is determined by the length of exposure to the causative agent and nature of that agent.
The survival of the patient is related to the extend and degree of burn and the age of the patient.
Approximately half of burn injuries are scalds.
Injuries to the tissue resulting from the application of heat can cause partial or complete destruction of the skin and underlying tissues.
DEPTH OF BURN:
SUPERFICIAL PARTIAL THICKNESS.
Only the epidermis is involved.
The skin surface is unbroken.
There is no loss of tissue but painful.
Treatment:
Apply Cool-Burn Spray to alleviate pain.
Apply SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressings.
The dressing remains on the affected area for 24 hours.
Thereafter, remove the dressing and apply Durmo-Spray until healed.
DEEP PARTIAL THICKNESS BURNS.
The epidermis and part of the dermis is destroyed.
The skin blisters and the surrounding areas is usually flushed and swollen.
Blisters may develop several hours after the accident.
It is normally very painful.
Treatment:
Seek medical assistance.
Spray affected area with Cool-Burn Spray to alleviate pain and kill bacteria.
Cover affected area with SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressings.
Adhere or bandage if needed.
Dressing changes every 24 hours.
Do not allow tap water into open wounds.
Do not scrub wounds to remove slough.
Only change dressings.
Do not bath patient.
Spray Anti-Septic Spray over all surrounding wound areas, and or the rest of the body and leave to dry.
Anti-Septic Spray does not only prepare a healthy skin to perform a skingraft, but gives a patient a refreshing fresh feeling as it kills bacteria and allows the patient to rest.
FULL THICKNESS BURNS (3rd DEGREE).
The full thickness of the skin is penetrated, the epidermis, dermis and underlying structures such as fat, muscle, tendons and in some cases up to the bone level.
The areas appear charred and are characterized by a dry leathery appearance.
Veins may be visible and thromboses.
Sensory nerve endings in the dermis are destroyed and the patient is unlikely to feel any pain except at the wound edges.
Full thickness burns normally caused by immersion in hot liquids, flames, electricity or chemicals.
Treatment:
Access the size of the burn in order to estimate fluid loss.
Burns up to 30% of the body can be life threatening.
These wounds can be deceptive.
The burn may often be much deeper and wider than it appears visually.
Dead tissue can not be visualized.
Electric Burns:- causes extensive damage to the muscle, arteries and veins.
Commence with first aid treatment and seek medical help.
Chemical-, acid- or alkali Burns:- caused by nature of material rather than heat.
Acid and alkalis are absorbed into the tissue and the burn may deepen unless they are rapidly neutralized.
Use milk to wash and rinse the affected areas as soon as possible.
Spray with Cool-Burn Spray over the area every hour for 6 hours.
Apply SeptiCure® Burn Dressing to lift oedema until clinician instructs differently.
Plug cavities with Chemspunge Cavity Plugs.
WHY SEPTICURE BURN DRESSINGS DESLOUGH AND ASSIST THE BODY TO GRANULATE NEW CELLS.
SeptiCure® Burn Dressing are hydrophilic products that lift oedema (swelling) through osmotic pressure.
The fluids escaping a 3rd degree burn is caused by severe healthy tissue loss, as new cells are destroyed (broken) in the extremity of the accident.
Once cells are broken, there is no oxygen as a result of impaired blood circulation.
Thus, dead tissue which can hardly be visualized.
The patient suffers a great deal of shock due to severe tissue, vein, muscle loss etc.
Medical advice must be sought as soon as possible.
The patient develops a fever as from the second day.
Due to shock, it is advisable not to continue with surgical desloughing.
The patient needs to recover first before any surgical intervention is performed.
SeptiCure® Burn Dressings will move the slough (dead tissue) to the wound surfaces.
A black scab will cover the affected area as from the 3rd - 6th day.
At this stage it can be surgically removed.
These products will remove all debri and leave clean, red surfaces.
In some cases all muscle, tendons and veins can be visualized.
Continue with these unique dressings until granulation has covered the wound crater.
The body granulates very quickly and in a few days a skingraft can be performed to prevent over-granulation areas.
Advances of SeptiCure® Burn Dressing.
Less psychological effects on children, as this ensures a pain-free treatment.
No scrubbing of wounds to deslough or remove debri.
No or less sedation for pain.
No scars in many cases.
No skingraft in many cases (natural healing).
No theater costs.
Less time spent in hospitals.
Patient can be treated at home until a skingraft is performed.
FACTORS EFFECTING HEALING.
Tap water and detergents should never be used to treat burns.
No scrubbing of wounds as healthy tissue can be damaged.
Patients fear dressing changes as dressings normally stick to the wound (except SeptiCure® Burn Dressing).
Patients refuse to enjoy a balanced protein meal due to pain and fear to move.
Dehydration, as patients are to scared to move to reach for the drinks on the bedside table.
Deficiency of Vitamin C or Zinc, in the case of severe burns.
The glucocorticoids such as cortisone, lead to reduction inflammatory response, depressed fibro-blast proliferation and minimal granulation tissue formation.
Poor blood supply due to pressure bandages.
The advantage of using SeptiCure® Burn Dressing is that it promotes blood circulation to the affected areas due to the adsorption capacity of the product.
Continued inflammatory response caused by foreign bodies entering the wound during trauma or have been placed there by surgical interference e.g. sutures.
Another advantage by using SeptiCure® Burn Dressing is that these products are a very aggressive desloughing product and will adsorb exudate, so carrying bacteria away from the wound and minimizes proliferation of bacteria after every dressing change; thus, lifting oedema which is an ideal environment for proliferation of bacteria.
Never apply ultraviolet light to burn wounds.
Avoid sunburn after a skingraft for at least one year.
Use Durmo-spray twice daily to prevent scars.
Advantage remain to use Chemspunge or SeptiCure® Burn Dressings as soon as possible
Lifts oedema.
Prevent bacteria penetration into wounds.
Alleviates pain.
Stimulate blood circulation to wound area.
Deslough and remove debri through osmotic pressure.
Stimulates granulation.
Pain-free treatment to burns of any degree.
Promotes quick healing.
If inflammatory exudate does not escape the wound, the bloodstream through the rest of the body will transfer bacteria, septicaemia will occure.
Exudate aids cell migration and maturation, provides a fluid media, enzymes growth modulators, nutritional factors.
It is also actively bactericidal because of the substantial number of cells and antibodies it contains forms a valuable part of the inflammatory process and a problem arises only when exudate is produced in very large quantities as necrotic exudating wounds.
At this stage SeptiCure® Burn Dressing quickly controls large quantities of exudate carrying bacteria as it adsorbs and retains fluids.
The body remains producing exudate, as inflammatory exudate continues to escape.
Any healing wound becomes dryer and will start granulating.
No wound dressing can dry a wound.
Natural healing takes place as soon as debri and inflammation are under control.
Any healing wound dispose less exudate.
Age groups.
The physical condition of the patient must be taken into account, especially if a patient suffers from malnutrition, cancer or the aged. Research has proven that elderly patients' wounds granulate very slowly and cancer sufferers in many cases did not granulate at all.
In treating elderly patients it is advisable to use SeptiCure® Burn Dressing to deslough the wound and lift bad odours, but to continue with a product less aggressive as healing progresses.
SeptiCure® Burn Dressing must not be used on fresh donor areas or skingraft.
Only if the area becomes septic!
If a burn needs treatment, it needs SeptiCure®
BURNS CAUSES:
Burns can be defined as any injury to tissues of the body caused by heat, electricity, friction, chemicals, radiation, gases and fuel.
The extent of the injury is determined by the length of exposure to the causative agent and nature of that agent.
The survival of the patient is related to the extent and degree of burn and the age of the patient.
Approximately half of burn injuries are scalds.
Injuries to the tissue resulting from the application of heat can cause partial or complete destruction of the skin and underlying tissues.
DEPTH OF BURN:
SUPERFICIAL PARTIAL THICKNESS
Only the epidermis is involved.
The skin surface is unbroken.
There is no loss of tissue but there is pain.
Treatment:
- Apply CoolBurn Spray to alleviate pain.
- Apply SeptiCure® Burn Dressing to lift oedema.
- The dressing remains on the affected area for 24 hours.
- Thereafter, remove the dressing and apply DurmoSpray until healed.
The epidermis and part of the dermis is destroyed.
The skin blisters and the surrounding areas is usually flushed and swollen.
Blisters may develop several hours after the accident.
It is normally very painful.
Treatment:
- Seek medical assistance.
- Spray affected area with CoolBurn Spray to alleviate pain and kill bacteria.
- Cover affected area with SeptiCure® Burn Dressings till debri is lifted. Thereafter every 2-3 days.
- Adhere or bandage if needed.
- Dressing changes every 24 hours.
- Do not allow tap water into open wounds.
- Do not scrub wounds to remove slough. Change dressing only.
- Do not bath patient.
- Spray AntiSeptic Spray over all surrounding wound areas, or the rest of the body and leave to dry .
- AntiSeptic Spray not only prepares a healthy skin to perform a skin graft, it kills bacteria.
- CoolBurn, Durmo, Antiseptic and Psoriases Spray are natural products and hypoallergenic.
- Obtainable from Chemspunge® / SteriWorld® (PTY) Ltd.
The full thickness of the skin is penetrated, the epidermis, dermis and underlying structures such as fat, muscle, tendons and in some cases up to the bone level.
The areas appear charred and are characterized by a dry leathery appearance.
Veins may be visible and thromboses may occur.
Sensory nerve endings in the dermis are destroyed and the patient is unlikely to feel any pain except at the wound edges.
Full thickness burns are normally caused by immersion in hot liquids, flames, electricity or chemicals.
The patient will be in a status of shock.
Start with SeptiCure® Burn Dressing as soon as possible to deslough the wound.
Treatment:
- Assess the size of the burn in order to estimate fluid loss.
- Burns up to 30% or more of the body can be life threatening.
- These wounds can be deceptive.
- The burn may often be much deeper and wider than it appears visually.
- Dead tissue cannot be visualized.
- SeptiCure® Burn Dressing will move the debri to the surface of the wound to prevent sepsis.
- Electric Burns:- cause extensive damage to the muscle, arteries and veins.
- Commence with first aid treatment and seek medical help.
- Chemical, acid or alkali Burns:- caused by nature of material rather than heat.
- Acid and alkalis are absorbed into the tissue and the burn may deepen unless they are rapidly neutralized.
- Use milk to wash and rinse the affected areas as soon as possible.
- Spray with CoolBurn Spray over the area.
- Apply SeptiCure® Burn Dressing to lift oedema until clinician prescribes further treatment.
- Chemspunge® Cavity Plugs for the treatment of burned ears, between fingers or in cavities.
SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressing.
The skin consists of the following layers:
- Dermis.
- The epidermis.
- The stratum corium.
- The germinal layer.
The dermal papillae play a significant role in wound healing.
The mountains act as areas of massive blood supply in wounds, while the valleys of epidermis act as regions of re-growth in superficial wounds leading to rapid repair.
To function properly, fibroblasts need nutrients and oxygen from the blood supply and the presence of ferrous iron, Vitamin C and Zinc substances.
If these are lacking, collagen synthesis is slowed or in server cases halted.
This can occur when infecting bacteria complete with them for nutrients.
SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressings revolutionizes wound and burn treatment by promoting natural healing:
- SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressings contain no Antimicrobial- or Microbial agents.
- Protects new granulating cells.
- Hypo-Allergenic.
- Lifts oedema as soon as dressings is applied.
- Promotes blood circulation due to adsorption capacity.
- Desloughs burns and wounds through osmotic pressure.
- Enhances healing.
- Prevents bacteria penetrating into wounds.
- Prevents scars.
- Only removes that what is not needed by the body to perform natural healing.
- Does not deposit anything into wounds.
- Adsorbs and retains fluids.
- Classified as moist wound healing dressings under the bio-active group.
Burns can be defined as any injury to tissues of the body caused by heat, electricity, friction, chemicals, radiation, gasses and fuel.
The extend of the injury is determined by the length of exposure to the causative agent and nature of that agent.
The survival of the patient is related to the extend and degree of burn and the age of the patient.
Approximately half of burn injuries are scalds.
Injuries to the tissue resulting from the application of heat can cause partial or complete destruction of the skin and underlying tissues.
DEPTH OF BURN:
SUPERFICIAL PARTIAL THICKNESS.
Only the epidermis is involved.
The skin surface is unbroken.
There is no loss of tissue but painful.
Treatment:
Apply Cool-Burn Spray to alleviate pain.
Apply SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressings.
The dressing remains on the affected area for 24 hours.
Thereafter, remove the dressing and apply Durmo-Spray until healed.
DEEP PARTIAL THICKNESS BURNS.
The epidermis and part of the dermis is destroyed.
The skin blisters and the surrounding areas is usually flushed and swollen.
Blisters may develop several hours after the accident.
It is normally very painful.
Treatment:
Seek medical assistance.
Spray affected area with Cool-Burn Spray to alleviate pain and kill bacteria.
Cover affected area with SeptiCure® Non-Stick Burn Dressings.
Adhere or bandage if needed.
Dressing changes every 24 hours.
Do not allow tap water into open wounds.
Do not scrub wounds to remove slough.
Only change dressings.
Do not bath patient.
Spray Anti-Septic Spray over all surrounding wound areas, and or the rest of the body and leave to dry.
Anti-Septic Spray does not only prepare a healthy skin to perform a skingraft, but gives a patient a refreshing fresh feeling as it kills bacteria and allows the patient to rest.
FULL THICKNESS BURNS (3rd DEGREE).
The full thickness of the skin is penetrated, the epidermis, dermis and underlying structures such as fat, muscle, tendons and in some cases up to the bone level.
The areas appear charred and are characterized by a dry leathery appearance.
Veins may be visible and thromboses.
Sensory nerve endings in the dermis are destroyed and the patient is unlikely to feel any pain except at the wound edges.
Full thickness burns normally caused by immersion in hot liquids, flames, electricity or chemicals.
Treatment:
Access the size of the burn in order to estimate fluid loss.
Burns up to 30% of the body can be life threatening.
These wounds can be deceptive.
The burn may often be much deeper and wider than it appears visually.
Dead tissue can not be visualized.
Electric Burns:- causes extensive damage to the muscle, arteries and veins.
Commence with first aid treatment and seek medical help.
Chemical-, acid- or alkali Burns:- caused by nature of material rather than heat.
Acid and alkalis are absorbed into the tissue and the burn may deepen unless they are rapidly neutralized.
Use milk to wash and rinse the affected areas as soon as possible.
Spray with Cool-Burn Spray over the area every hour for 6 hours.
Apply SeptiCure® Burn Dressing to lift oedema until clinician instructs differently.
Plug cavities with Chemspunge Cavity Plugs.
WHY SEPTICURE BURN DRESSINGS DESLOUGH AND ASSIST THE BODY TO GRANULATE NEW CELLS.
SeptiCure® Burn Dressing are hydrophilic products that lift oedema (swelling) through osmotic pressure.
The fluids escaping a 3rd degree burn is caused by severe healthy tissue loss, as new cells are destroyed (broken) in the extremity of the accident.
Once cells are broken, there is no oxygen as a result of impaired blood circulation.
Thus, dead tissue which can hardly be visualized.
The patient suffers a great deal of shock due to severe tissue, vein, muscle loss etc.
Medical advice must be sought as soon as possible.
The patient develops a fever as from the second day.
Due to shock, it is advisable not to continue with surgical desloughing.
The patient needs to recover first before any surgical intervention is performed.
SeptiCure® Burn Dressings will move the slough (dead tissue) to the wound surfaces.
A black scab will cover the affected area as from the 3rd - 6th day.
At this stage it can be surgically removed.
These products will remove all debri and leave clean, red surfaces.
In some cases all muscle, tendons and veins can be visualized.
Continue with these unique dressings until granulation has covered the wound crater.
The body granulates very quickly and in a few days a skingraft can be performed to prevent over-granulation areas.
Advances of SeptiCure® Burn Dressing.
Less psychological effects on children, as this ensures a pain-free treatment.
No scrubbing of wounds to deslough or remove debri.
No or less sedation for pain.
No scars in many cases.
No skingraft in many cases (natural healing).
No theater costs.
Less time spent in hospitals.
Patient can be treated at home until a skingraft is performed.
FACTORS EFFECTING HEALING.
Tap water and detergents should never be used to treat burns.
No scrubbing of wounds as healthy tissue can be damaged.
Patients fear dressing changes as dressings normally stick to the wound (except SeptiCure® Burn Dressing).
Patients refuse to enjoy a balanced protein meal due to pain and fear to move.
Dehydration, as patients are to scared to move to reach for the drinks on the bedside table.
Deficiency of Vitamin C or Zinc, in the case of severe burns.
The glucocorticoids such as cortisone, lead to reduction inflammatory response, depressed fibro-blast proliferation and minimal granulation tissue formation.
Poor blood supply due to pressure bandages.
The advantage of using SeptiCure® Burn Dressing is that it promotes blood circulation to the affected areas due to the adsorption capacity of the product.
Continued inflammatory response caused by foreign bodies entering the wound during trauma or have been placed there by surgical interference e.g. sutures.
Another advantage by using SeptiCure® Burn Dressing is that these products are a very aggressive desloughing product and will adsorb exudate, so carrying bacteria away from the wound and minimizes proliferation of bacteria after every dressing change; thus, lifting oedema which is an ideal environment for proliferation of bacteria.
Never apply ultraviolet light to burn wounds.
Avoid sunburn after a skingraft for at least one year.
Use Durmo-spray twice daily to prevent scars.
Advantage remain to use Chemspunge or SeptiCure® Burn Dressings as soon as possible
Lifts oedema.
Prevent bacteria penetration into wounds.
Alleviates pain.
Stimulate blood circulation to wound area.
Deslough and remove debri through osmotic pressure.
Stimulates granulation.
Pain-free treatment to burns of any degree.
Promotes quick healing.
If inflammatory exudate does not escape the wound, the bloodstream through the rest of the body will transfer bacteria, septicaemia will occure.
Exudate aids cell migration and maturation, provides a fluid media, enzymes growth modulators, nutritional factors.
It is also actively bactericidal because of the substantial number of cells and antibodies it contains forms a valuable part of the inflammatory process and a problem arises only when exudate is produced in very large quantities as necrotic exudating wounds.
At this stage SeptiCure® Burn Dressing quickly controls large quantities of exudate carrying bacteria as it adsorbs and retains fluids.
The body remains producing exudate, as inflammatory exudate continues to escape.
Any healing wound becomes dryer and will start granulating.
No wound dressing can dry a wound.
Natural healing takes place as soon as debri and inflammation are under control.
Any healing wound dispose less exudate.
Age groups.
The physical condition of the patient must be taken into account, especially if a patient suffers from malnutrition, cancer or the aged. Research has proven that elderly patients' wounds granulate very slowly and cancer sufferers in many cases did not granulate at all.
In treating elderly patients it is advisable to use SeptiCure® Burn Dressing to deslough the wound and lift bad odours, but to continue with a product less aggressive as healing progresses.
SeptiCure® Burn Dressing must not be used on fresh donor areas or skingraft.
Only if the area becomes septic!
If a burn needs treatment, it needs SeptiCure®
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Product Classification
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The Skin
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Burn Photographs
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Case study 3
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Introduction
What are Burns
Modern Wound Dressings
Product Classification
Benefits
First Aid Primary Burn Treatment
Comparisons
The Skin
Technical Information
Burn Photographs
Case study 1
Case study 2
Case study 3
Start Finsh Case Studies
Make Contact
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INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGY IN PRIMARY BURN TREATMENT
Revolutionising burn treatment by promoting natural healing.
INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGY IN PRIMARY BURN TREATMENT
Revolutionising burn treatment by promoting natural healing.