Emergency Care of The Burn Patient

The intent of this lecture is to provide you with information for the basic emergency care required within the first 24 hours after a burn injury. Patients with serious burn injuries should be referred to a burn center according to the Referral Criteria established by the American Burn Association.

Burn Survivors Online

Burn Survivors Online provides information and support for burn survivors and their families throughout the world. In the United States 2 million people suffer burns each year, 300,000 of them are burned seriously and over 6,000 die from burn injuries…

Burntalk — Prevention

BurnTalk.com is a professional web site that informs adults and children about burn and fire safety. It focuses on burn prevention and proper safety precautions. This information is available as a resource for fire and burn safety…

Rescue 411 -- First Aid

A burn can be caused by heat (flames, hot grease, or boiling water), the sun (solar radiation), chemicals or electricity. When a burn breaks the skin, infection and loss of fluid can occur; burns can also result in difficulty breathing. If a burn victim has trouble breathing, has burns on more than one part of the body, or was burned by chemicals, an explosion, or electricity, call EMS immediately. Burns caused by flames or hot grease usually require medical attention as well, especially if the victim is a child or an elderly person…

Emergent Care of Lightning and Electrical Injuries

While injuries from man-made, generated, or "technical" ' electricity have been reported for less than 300 years, injuries from lightning must surely predate written records. Electrical burns account for 4 to 6.5% of all admissions to burn units in the United States and accounted for approximately 800 fatalities per year in the United States from 1984 through 1987. It is estimated that lightning causes 75 to 150 deaths per year, with 5 to 10 times more injuries.

Most admissions of adults to burn centers from electrical injury are occupationally related. Almost two thirds of the fatalities occur in people between the ages of 15 and 40 years. Young children have a predisposition to injuries from low-voltage sources such as electric cords because of their limited mobility within a relatively confined environment whereas older children and adolescents encounter electrical injury through various misadventures…

National Highway Traffic Safety
 Administration (NHTSA)

NCSA produces several reports that provide information on crashes, and are available from the National Technical Information Services .

Some reports are also available here in pdf format, which can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader already installed on your computer, it is available free of charge from Adobe - click here to download the version you need.

View the full list of NCSA's most recent publications and order form.

Reports can also be requested from NCSA's Information Services Branch. Telephone inquiries should be addressed to NCSA's Information Services Branch at 1-800-934-8517, or (202) 366-4198 locally in the Washington, DC area. FAX messages should be sent to (202) 366-7078.

Child Safety and Health Resource Guide

Introduction

Resource Coding System

Audio Visual Materials

Printed Materials

Organizations with Child Safety Interests

Agencies Offering Toll-Free Numbers

Index of Resources

Chemical Emergencies
 

Produced by the National Disaster Education Coalition: American Red Cross, FEMA, IAEM, IBHS, NFPA, NWS, USDA/CSREES, and USGS

Why Talk About Chemical Emergencies?
What Is a Home Chemical Emergency, and a Major Chemical Emergency?
Awareness Information
Preventing Chemical Emergencies in the Home
What to Do During a Home Chemical Emergency
Plan for Major Chemical Emergencies
Media and Community Education Ideas
What to Do During a Major Chemical Emergency
What to Do if You Are at the Scene of a Chemical Accident
How to Shelter-in-Place
Evacuation During a Chemical Emergency
What to Do After a Major Chemical Emergency

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