Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuries
Significant burn injury in the setting of trauma poses a challenging clinical dilemma and can be a diversion to providers not familiar with such injuries. Approximately 5–7% of burn center admissions include patients with multiple traumatic injuries. A 44 year old male with poly-trauma due to a fact...
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| author | Marc R. Matthews Lauren M. Van Sant Stephanie E. Bollenbach Scott D. Swanson Alexzandra K. Hollingworth Kevin N. Foster |
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| description | Significant burn injury in the setting of trauma poses a challenging clinical dilemma and can be a diversion to providers not familiar with such injuries. Approximately 5–7% of burn center admissions include patients with multiple traumatic injuries. A 44 year old male with poly-trauma due to a factory explosion presented with significant burns, and a pneumothorax, compartment syndromes of bilateral hands and forearms, and a missed axillary vein injury. In burn-trauma patient evaluations, thorough primary, secondary, and especially the tertiary surveys of the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS®) and Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS®) protocols must be performed and frequently reevaluated to avoid missed trauma injuries in the presence of thermal injury. This is especially important in blasts, explosions, assaults, and terror attacks at anytime and anywhere, when combined burn and trauma injuries are common. Early resuscitation of these patients mandates that frequent assessments uncover all other traumatic injuries, which may be less dramatic but more lethal than the burn. Keywords: Trauma, Burn, Missed injuries, ATLS, Axilla, Compartment syndrome |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df64b5cc00c3421b90d2ec38994b9afb2022-12-22T01:56:33ZengElsevierBurns Open2468-91222019-07-0133112115Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuriesMarc R. Matthews0Lauren M. Van Sant1Stephanie E. Bollenbach2Scott D. Swanson3Alexzandra K. Hollingworth4Kevin N. Foster5Arizona Burn Center, Department of Surgery, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Corresponding author at: The Arizona Burn Center, Maricopa Integrated Health System, 2601 East Roosevelt Street, Phoenix, AZ 85008, USA.Department of Surgery, Ventura County Medical Center, Oxnard, CA, USAArizona Burn Center, Department of Surgery, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, USAArizona Burn Center, Department of Surgery, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, USAArizona Burn Center, Department of Surgery, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, USAArizona Burn Center, Department of Surgery, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, USASignificant burn injury in the setting of trauma poses a challenging clinical dilemma and can be a diversion to providers not familiar with such injuries. Approximately 5–7% of burn center admissions include patients with multiple traumatic injuries. A 44 year old male with poly-trauma due to a factory explosion presented with significant burns, and a pneumothorax, compartment syndromes of bilateral hands and forearms, and a missed axillary vein injury. In burn-trauma patient evaluations, thorough primary, secondary, and especially the tertiary surveys of the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS®) and Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS®) protocols must be performed and frequently reevaluated to avoid missed trauma injuries in the presence of thermal injury. This is especially important in blasts, explosions, assaults, and terror attacks at anytime and anywhere, when combined burn and trauma injuries are common. Early resuscitation of these patients mandates that frequent assessments uncover all other traumatic injuries, which may be less dramatic but more lethal than the burn. Keywords: Trauma, Burn, Missed injuries, ATLS, Axilla, Compartment syndromehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468912219300239 |
| spellingShingle | Marc R. Matthews Lauren M. Van Sant Stephanie E. Bollenbach Scott D. Swanson Alexzandra K. Hollingworth Kevin N. Foster Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuries Burns Open |
| title | Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuries |
| title_full | Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuries |
| title_fullStr | Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuries |
| title_short | Why trauma must trump burn injuries: The spectre of missed injuries |
| title_sort | why trauma must trump burn injuries the spectre of missed injuries |
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