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1. What is happening biochemically in the zone of stasis and how can you reverse it?
2. How does the immune system react to a burn?
3. Review the Parkland, Moore, Evans, Brooke
and hypertonic saline formulas. What is the rationale for the differences?
4. What are some common nutritional formulas?
5. What should one do with blisters today?
(PRS 1980; 65:798)
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages
of sulfamylon, silvadene, and silver nitrate?
7. Should you give a burn patient antibiotics?
8. What are the principles of the treatment
of a burned hand?
9. How should the burned face be treated?
(PRS 1991; 88:83)
10. Robson says burns should be cooled.
Why? (PRS 1992; 89:1155)
11. You overspend your photography budget and
the office manager applies 3500 volts of electrical current to your hand.
What will die? Is tissue loss progressive or is it progressive recognition
by the surgeon? (PRS 1988; 82:1027 PRS 1984; 73:431)
12. How do you treat oral commissure burns in
children? (PRS 1996; 97:738)
13. How do you treat chemical burns caused by
hydrofluoric acid, phenol or phosphorous?
14. What happens to the gut in a burned patient?
(PRS 1992; 90:524)
15. How long does it take for someone to develop
frostbite from cold exposure?
16. What is the mechanism of damage to tissue
in frostbite?
17. What is the protocol for treatment of a
frostbite patient?
18. Discuss tech-99 scans in electrical injuries.
19. a: How do you know when a burn
wound is infected?
b: Are
cultures representative of deper infection?
c: What
are the common organisms?
d: What
is the outcome?
20. What is the pathophysiology of inhalation
injury above the glottis? Below the glottis? Is a lung scan
helpful?
21. How do you treat an ear burn?
22. How much can you excise and graft at one
sitting?
23. How is cultured skin made?
24. Discuss artificial dermises.
25. How are burns in children treated differently
from adults?
26. a: How long can allograft be stored?
b: Can you get
AIDS from it?
c: How long can
extra STSG be stored and how do you do it?
27. Should we use porcine autograft?