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burn

vr.tr.burn · ACT.ACT

Let an agent explain burns and their grading in general terms, relay first aid guidance and criteria for urgent care from health authorities, describe prevention, and route emergencies to emergency services immediately and personal cases to clinicians.

Thing Registry Activities and processes

Research draft, second pass

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain burns and their grading in general terms, relay first aid guidance and criteria for urgent care from health authorities, describe prevention, and route emergencies to emergency services immediately and personal cases to clinicians.

An injury to skin or deeper tissue caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, radiation or friction, graded by depth from superficial reddening to full-thickness destruction and by the area of the body affected; burns are among the most common injuries, range from minor scalds to life-threatening trauma, and are treated by cooling, dressings, pain relief and, for serious burns, specialist care.

What it is for: Not applicable; an injury.

It can be explain causes and grading; relay first aid guidance from authorities; describe when urgent care is needed; relay prevention guidance.

Distinguishing features

Depth and area determine severity

Many causes

Fluid loss and infection risk in large burns

Specialist burn care for serious cases

What it looks like

Reddened, blistered, white or charred skin depending on depth, often painful and swollen.

Physical character

depth grades: superficial, partial thickness, full thickness grades

rule of nines: body surface area estimation method - for adults

How it is recognised

Tissue injury from heat, electricity, chemicals or radiation

Graded by depth and area

Sunburn is a radiation burn; frostbite is cold injury, a different condition

Related models

is a kind of - tissue damage

injury

is a kind of - in registry terms

clinical sign

is treated in - for serious burns

burn centre

is related to - burns are wounds

wound

In practice

Families and kinds

thermal burns and scalds

electrical burns

chemical burns

radiation burns including sunburn

friction burns

inhalation injury as a related injury

Identifiers

ICD-10 T20-T32 burns and corrosions

ICD-11 ND90-NE2Z

Standards and regulation

First aid guidelines from national bodies

Burn care guidelines and referral criteria

Product safety standards to prevent burns

Workplace safety rules for heat, chemicals and electricity

Failure modes and hazards

Shock and infection in large burns

Airway injury from inhalation

Harmful home remedies

Agents giving personal medical advice

Also called

eye burnesophageal burnLow-temperature burnbrandingmicrowave burnthermal burnupper respiratory burnchemical burnthird-degree burnsecond-degree burnfourth-degree burnfirst-degree burnelectrical burnflash burnhock burnspediatric burnradiation burnmagnetic resonance imaging burnpowder burnchemical eye injuryPizza palateThermal traumaSmoke burncaustic burnCaustic ingestionHydrofluoric acid burnconducted energy weapon injuryMoist desquamation

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Recognise Recognising burns.

Emergency first.

Grading

Depth and area.

Grading

Grading.

  1. How are burns graded by depth and area, and what determines severity? definition
  2. Is someone seriously burned now, which needs emergency services immediately? boundary

Causes

Causes.

Causes

Causes.

  1. What causes burns, and how do chemical and electrical burns differ from thermal? definition
  2. Which entry fits a specific cause? action
First aid Immediate care.

First aid.

Steps

First aid steps.

Steps

Steps.

  1. What first aid do health authorities advise, including cooling and covering? provenance
  2. Is the presentation limited to official first aid guidance? boundary

Urgent

When to seek care.

Urgent

Urgent.

  1. Which burns need urgent or specialist care according to referral criteria? provenance
  2. Which entry fits emergency services? action
Treat Treatment and recovery.

General terms only.

Treatment

Treatment.

Treatment

Treatment.

  1. How are burns treated, from dressings to grafting, in general terms? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about their own burn, which needs a clinician? boundary

Recovery

Scarring and rehabilitation.

Recovery

Recovery.

  1. What does recovery involve, including scar care and rehabilitation? provenance
  2. Which entry fits burn rehabilitation? action
Prevent Prevention and study.

Prevention.

Prevention

Prevention.

Prevention

Prevention.

  1. What prevention guidance do safety bodies give for homes and workplaces? provenance
  2. Which entry fits fire safety? action

Study

Epidemiology and research.

Study

Study.

  1. What do epidemiology and research say about burns, with sources? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each cause be a separate entry?
  • How should first aid guidance be linked by country?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases for site-specific burns and branding; should they be split off?
Draft as JSON