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Understanding Burn Treatment Video
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Video at a Glance
- This video reviews burn treatment.
- Medical providers no longer use the terms 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-degree burns.
- Instead, they are called superficial, partial thickness, and full thickness.
- Superficial burns include sunburns. Treat with cold water.
- Partial thickness burns form blisters, and they are very painful.
- There is no field treatment for a full-thickness burn.
- Certain burns require a burn center.
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