A Rule of Thumb for Hand Burns: Categorization and Mapping of Proportional Surface Area Involvement
| Autor: | Bismark Adjei, Kayvan Shokrollahi, Dallan Dargan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adult
Male Dorsum Body Surface Area Dentistry Thumb Wrist Young Adult medicine Humans Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Body surface area Trauma Severity Indices business.industry Rehabilitation Hand Injuries Index finger Middle Aged medicine.anatomical_structure Emergency Medicine Female Surgery Burns business Palm Clinical record Palmar surface |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Burn Care & Research. 41:1092-1096 |
| ISSN: | 1559-0488 1559-047X |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jbcr/iraa054 |
| Popis: | Hand burns are common and often complex injuries, requiring referral to specialist centers. The patient’s thumbprint is a rapid means of accurately assessing hand burn surface area. This study aimed to establish categories and evaluate sites of hand burn surface area in order to facilitate comparison of hand burns. Sixteen burns involving the hand and wrist among 14 patients referred to a burns center were retrospectively categorized by burn mechanism, burn thickness, and hand burn surface area. The burn surface area in the clinical record was compared with that calculated by the thumbprint method and the rule of thumb diagram. Burn surface area in the clinical record was either “1%” or “ |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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