Burn First Aid - Cold Therapy.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Burn First Aid - Cold Therapy [Keywords:] Burn; cold therapy Using Cold Liaofa reduce burn wound pain and preventing heat damage to reduce the wound exudate and edema. In this paper, water treatment effect, impact and other aspects of the precautions outlined. A cold-water therapy Cold therapy (cold therapy) is a traditional treatment for burn treatment. The so-called cold therapy immediately after burn or in the post-debridement of cold water with low temperature (usually 10 ~ 20 , the summer can be as low as 3 ~ 5 ) on the wound for bathing, washing or wet compress [1]. Clinical and experiments show that the cold treatment has the following advantages: (1) rapidly reduce the local temperature to terminate the organization continue to heat damage, while the and the harmful effects of chemical substances. (2) effectively reduces the permeability of capillaries, reduce edema, the mechanism of thermal injury is to inhibit mast cell release of inflammatory mediators, and inhibition of bradykinin on the vascular system role. (3 ) could decrease the local metabolic rate and oxygen consumption, thus reducing the production of lactic acid within the organization to prevent metabolic acidosis. (4) to promote epithelial growth, mainly due to the cold treatment to prevent the skin damage, while inhibition of prostaglandin, thromboxane factors, improving the microcirculation after injury. (5) cold therapy to effectively relieve pain, lower temperature, the longer the cold treatment, the better pain relief. This is because the temperature can reduce the sensitivity of the local cutaneous nerve. 2 cold therapy on the depth of chemical burns Is a common chemical burns burns, thermal burns after it, ranking the second common cause of burns, usually accounts for about 10% of burn patients. As the specificity of chemical burns, chemical substances are neutralized or removed ago, can continue to destroy tissue, forming a deep ulcer or p