First Aid and Trauma Management: Burn Assessment, Heat and Cold Injuries, Snake Bites and Electrical Trauma

A trauma lesson that opens with the priority emergency measures for every patient - safety as the first priority, preplanning the scene, observing patient and family and the family-focused interventions that relieve anxiety - and then takes the common trauma list. Burns are worked through by type (thermal, chemical, electrical, radiation), by depth up to the full-thickness wound that needs hospitalisation, and by burned body surface area on the Lund-Browder chart and the rule of nines, with the fluid shift that follows. Hyperthermia and heat exhaustion, fainting and the autonomic stress response, snake bites with the elapid and viperid distinction and the coral-snake rules, and cold, electrical, altitude, near-drowning, spinal, head and musculoskeletal injury follow with their assessment and treatment.