Integumentary system

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A burn victim comes into the ER and you are helping to assess of the extent of their burns. In you assessment, you ntice the patient has burns on their head and neck, their right arm, right leg, and the front of the torso. You determine that the patient has burns over _____________%of their body.

54%

Collagenous and elastic fibers of the__________ make it possible for the skin to flex with movement of the body?

Dermis

A clinician can estimate the extent of the are f a burn by using the "rule of eights"

False

The skin is made up of two layers: the epidermis and the dermis

False

The "rule of__________" is a system devised to assess the amount of body surface affected by a burn.

Nines

Mechanical removal of skin tissue is called an abrasion.

True

After a severe burn, a patient may require a/an___________, in which skin is removed from an unaffected are of his body and moved to the burned area.

autograft

Initially the patient with third degree burns will feel no_________.

pain

Burns that are characterized by blisters, severe pain, and swelling are classified as.

second- degree burns

A_____________ is a classic example of a first-degree burns.

sun burn

The front of the trunk is considered to be ____________% of the skin surface area.

18%

The integumentary system plays an important role in regulating the body's__________.

Temperature

A fourth-degree burn goes all the way to the___________.

bone

Severe burns require healing at an intensity the body____________normally achieve on its own.

can not

When assessing burns, there are two factors: the_______________ of the burn and the size of the area burned.

depth

Two factors when assessing burns are_________and___________of area damaged.

depth and amount

The rule of nines is used to______________

determine the body surface area burned

A second-degree burn involves the entire depth of the________ and a portion of the dermis and can cause blistering.

epidermis

Ideally a wound heals from the inside, working its way toward the outside or___________.

epidermis

What is the layer of skin that we can see?

epidermis

A typical sunburn causes a second-degree burn.

false

First degree burns affect all three of the skin layers.

false

the rile of nines refers to nine types of skin lesions.

false

A first-degree burn has damages only the_________layer of skin, the epidermis, and is classified as a partial-thickness burn.

first

A third- degree burn affects all three of the skin_______ and is classified as a full thickness burn.

layers

What is the degree of burn in which all three layers of skin have been destroyed, and the victim feels no pain?

third

Fourth degree burns penetrate___________.

to the bone

Burns can be caused y chemicals, electricity, or radiation.

true

Each upper limb is considered 9% of the body skin surface area.

true

Second degree burns involve the entire depth of the epidermis and a portion of the dermis.

true


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