High-Volume Burn Resuscitation Increases Neurologic Risk

Patients who received > 200 mL/kg of fluid resuscitation for burn injuries showed higher rates of worsening neurologic findings on imaging.

Medscape

#TIL There is no generally recognized terminology for burn injury classification. Various “degrees” conventions stop at 3, 4, 5, and even 6.

In a 2013 paper in “Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters,” the authors write: “During the past several years of reviewing more than a thousand [related] articles … it was apparent that there is an ongoing inconsistent use of terms and phrases to describe the varying types of burn injury.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24563636

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Burn injury: what's in a name? Labels used for burn injury classification: a review of the data from 2000-2012 - PubMed

Through the years, the burn injury has been described using a variety of labels. These labels have ranged from one word terms to phrases including degrees of injury or more descriptive terms. A search was conducted relying on a common general internet search engine. After multiple searches varying t …

PubMed

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