Burn ICU CE Module 8 Burn Care Module 8 Hypothermia, Part 2 OK Question Title * 1. What is your full name? OK Question Title * 2. What is your current email address? OK Question Title * 3. What EMS agency do you work for? OK Question Title * 4. Attestation: I have completed the CE module by myself. I have completed it in the most honest and professional manor possible. I will not repeat this module in the future for additional CE credits or use this CE module in a manor it was not intended. I Agree OK Question Title * 5. How does hypothermia effect long-term patient care? Helps the patient have fewer complications and adds neurologic protection. Causes frostbite. Hypothermia in a trauma or burn patient can have long lasting and detrimental impact to include: Higher rate of infection, extended clotting times (more bleeding), prolonged hospital stays which can expose the patient to higher complication rates. OK Question Title * 6. Burn patients who become hypothermic, even briefly, are how likely to have infections? Twice as likely to have infections. Less likely to have infections. Three times as likely to have infections. OK Question Title * 7. What makes a burn patient susceptible to hypothermia? They are wet. The skin is the key barrier that helps humans maintain their temperature and fights off infection. Losing skin decreases the ability to regulate temperatures. The patient will rely on caregivers to provide warming measures to maintain their temperature. The burn patient generally is not at risk for hypothermia. OK Question Title * 8. You have a burn victim that is 30% burned. You have warmed IV fluid, what rate do you run it at for a 30 year old man? 500 ml/hr of warmed IVF. 200ml/hr of warmed IVF. 125ml/hr of warmed IVF. OK Question Title * 9. You are caring for a 8 yo male who fell in to a campfire. He has a patent airway, but has sustained 35% TBSA burns to his upper body. What ate would you run his IVF's? 350 ml/hr of warmed IVF. 150 ml/hr of cool IVF. 250 ml/hr of warmed IVF. OK DONE