Summer Burns: Causes, Prevention, Pre-Hospital Care and Transport to Burns Unit | Chapter 8 | Current Innovations in Disease and Health Research Vol. 6

 This branch presents a comprehensive exploration of vacation-related burn harms, encompassing their etiology, safeguard strategies, prehospital management, and the essential tests guiding patient transfer to specialized burns wholes. As the temperature rises during vacation, so does the incidence of burn injuries. This member discusses a spectrum of creative agents, including scalds, sunburns, contact burns, and flame-connected incidents, all more prevalent in friendlier months.Proactive measures to mitigate burn risks take focus of interest, emphasizing prudent star protection, safe rustic practices, and vigilant heat source management. Within the burn injury framework, efficient prehospital care assumes principal importance. This chapter carefully elucidates tailored first aid obligations corresponding to diverse blaze categories, highlighting speedy cooling techniques, wound care essentials, and active pain management strategies. Trained prehospital responders evolve into pivotal actors, confided with stabilizing sufferers, gauging burn asperity, and facilitating seamless changes to specialized medical abilities. In the last part of the chapter, consideration shifts to the criteria governing the conveyance of burn patients to named burns units.This chapter serves as an essential guide for healthcare experts, first responders, and stakeholders, offering acumens into proactive burn harm prevention, efficacious prehospital attack, and the meticulous orchestration of patient transfers to burns units all along the summer season.

Author(s) Details:

Mohd. Altaf Mir,
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, 151001, India.

Prince Kumar,
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, 151001, India.

Rajesh Maurya,
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, 151001, India.

Aakansha Giri Goswami,
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, 151001, India.

Aarti Yadav,
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, 151001, India.

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Experience with Burn Prevention Program in North Eastern India: A Recent Study | Chapter 02 | Recent Developments in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 7

 Burn injuries are among the worst of all injuries, and they constitute a serious public health concern around the world. Burn injuries are a prominent source of morbidity and mortality in India, yet there are few community-based treatments in the form of multi-strategic and multi-focused prevention programmes. The goal of this research, which was carried out in the Indian state of Assam, is to minimise the number of burn accidents, morbidity, and mortality from burn injuries by focusing on community sensitization through a well-structured preventive programme. Participatory community seminars, the use of print, electronic, and social media, as well as lectures and demonstrations in schools were all included in the prevention programmes. The impact of Burn Preventive Programs was determined by analysing inpatient and outpatient records of burn damaged patients treated in the burn unit, as well as the scoring system in the school education programme and social media participation (BPP). For simplicity of assessment, a comparison of the results from the early (Block I) and late (Block II) phases of the study period was done. The percentage of patients reporting from places where BPP was implemented decreased significantly, according to the findings. When compared to Block I, the majority of patients in Block II had a lower percentage of TBSA burn. In 48.9% of Block I patients and 78.0 percent of Block II patients, water was used to put out fires. 52.3 percent of Block I patients and 83.4 percent of Block II patients utilised water to cool their burn wounds. Only 34.6 percent of participants in Block II used ineffective topical therapies on their wounds, compared to 80.9 percent in Block I. Increased public awareness resulted in a higher number of patients reporting to a burn unit within 7 hours of injury and a significant decrease in firecracker burns, which dropped from 21.9 percent (Block I) to 7.8 percent (Block II) (Block II). In the latter portion of Block II, increasing awareness among students was visible in the majority of students' improved scores and reduction in burns. According to the findings, BPP has had a good impact on society.

Author(S) Details

Bhupendra Prasad Sarma
Department of Surgery & In-Charge, Burn Unit, NEMCARE Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India.

Kabita S. Choudhury
Burn Unit, NEMCARE Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India.

Dipak Sarma
Burn Unit, NEMCARE Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India.

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Investigation of the Knowledge and Practices of Drivers/Conductors Working in Government Buses Running Through Tricity, Chandigarh Regarding the Use of First Aid Kit | Chapter 11 | Issues and Development in Health Research Vol. 3

 Background: It is everyone's obligation to keep the roads safe. Prompt first aid at the scene of an accident can help victims avoid serious health and life repercussions. Reduced risk in the world's road traffic networks necessitates commitment and educated decision-making on the part of all stakeholders, including government, industry, non-governmental organisations, and international agencies, as well as participation from people from all walks of life [1].

Methods: From January to April 2019, a four-month cross-sectional, community-based exploratory study was done to investigate the knowledge and practises of first aid among bus drivers and conductors in Tricity, Chandigarh. A total of 300 drivers and conductors from CTU, Haryana Roadways, Himachal Roadways, and Punjab Roadways were questioned for this study in order to have a generalised sense of the level of awareness and practises of first aid among government bus employees in real-life situations.

Results: 575 (95.8%) employees were aware of the prominent position of the first aid box in buses, and 197 (32.8%) employees considered passenger safety to be their top priority when the bus was involved in an accident.

Conclusion: The awareness and practise of first aid among drivers/conductors in saving the lives of passengers is observed to be significantly higher than in prior studies. However, they still necessitate greater awareness and better methods.

Author (S) Details

Jyoti
Centre for Public Health, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

N. K. Goel
Department of Community Medicine, GMCH-32, Chandigarh, India.

Prashar, Savita
Centre for Public Health, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

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