[pct-l] more kudos for tegaderm

[Patrick Beggan]

As an EMT we're trained to use dry sterile dressing for skin burns. If  
it's a bad burn, putting a tegaderm on it can end up being a very  
painful removal process. Of course, so can dry sterile dressings. But  
I guess if an MD did the tegaderm he's more knowledgeable than I, it  
just seems a rather sticky item to put on a burn blister.

Although it's true that burns are vectors for infection, just like an  
open wound. You definitely need to cover it with SOMETHING sterile.


On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Marion Davison wrote:

> Another reason to have tegaderm in your med kit--it is a great  
> dressing
> for second degree burns.  I was in bed recovering from surgery and  
> got a
> scald burn on my chest when someone brought me a mug of hot tea and I
> spilled it on myself--resulting in a huge blister that opened right  
> up.
>  The surgeon gave me a big tegaderm patch to cover it, and it healed
> beautifully with no scar.   Since we fiddle with stoves and hot  
> water in
> the backcountry, burns can be a fairly common injury, and a second
> degree burn is a big infection risk.
> Marion
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