Assessment and Initial Approach to the Severely Burned Patient in the Emergency Department: An Integrative Literature Review

• Autor(a) principal: Callou, Pedro Henrique Cardoso
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Viana, Raizza Caroline de Andrade, Oliveira, Kaike Santos de, Viana, Maria Clara de Andrade, Ramalho, Cicero Lucas Gomes, Menezes, Daisy Teixeira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ID on line. Revista de psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://idonline.emnuvens.com.br/id/article/view/3781
• topic: Emergency; Burns Initial; assessment of the patient; Emergência; Queimaduras Avaliação; inicial do paciente

Brazil presents in its territory an estimated 1,000,000 occurrences of accidents due to burns per year, and of these cases, only 100,000 are referred to hospital help and approximately 2,500 die due to direct or indirect complications of burns. Mortality from burns increases when other organic structures are compromised. This work aims to carry out a narrative review of the literature regarding the approach and initial assessment of severely burned patients in the hospital emergency department. An electronic search was performed for articles published in journals indexed through the PubMed, ScienceDirect and BVS Saúde databases, using the following combination of descriptors verified in the DeCS/MeSH database: 'emergency medical services' AND 'burn injury' AND 'evaluation' . Studies published between January 2017 and October 2022 were admitted. The observation of the hemodynamic state, the rapid assertive assessment of the degree of impairment and the management of the multidisciplinary health team are fundamental aspects for the improvement of the patient's condition.