01
Treat
A thermal burn with correct cooling, dressing, and what NOT to apply.
Lesson 6: Burns, eyes, and airway
Three specific emergencies that need specific tools - and the common mistakes to avoid.
Module
06
The Real-Life First-Aid Kit
Burns, eyes, and airway
Three specific emergencies, three specific tools, and the folk remedies to forget.
Lesson 06 · Burns + airway
Learning Objectives
00 · 00
By the end of this lesson
Three skills, three emergencies.
02
Manage
An eye injury - flush, cover, and decide when to transport.
03
Recognize
A blocked airway in an unconscious patient and the basic intervention.
Lesson 06 · Burns + airway
Key Concept · 1 of 2
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Tool · burn care
Burn-gel dressings
Pre-soaked gel pads that cool a burn and seal it from contamination at the same time. Available in sizes from a single pocket pad up to chest-sized.
01
Best for: partial-thickness (second-degree) burns.
02
Cool the burn for 10–20 minutes - gel does this passively.
03
Don't use on full-thickness burns. Cover dry and transport.
04
Stock 2 sizes: pocket and torso. ~$15–$40 total.
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Burn-gel dressing · pre-soaked pad
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Lesson 06 · Burns + airway
Procedure
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Procedure · thermal burn · 4 steps
Treating a thermal burn
01
of 04
Stop
Remove the source, cool the burn
Get away from the heat source. Run cool - not cold, not iced - water over the burn for 10–20 minutes.
Checkpoint · Cool · 10–20 min
02
of 04
Strip
Remove jewelry and constricting fabric
Take off rings, watches, tight clothing near the burn before swelling sets in. Don't peel fabric that's stuck to the skin.
Checkpoint · Before swelling
03
of 04
Cover
Non-stick dressing or burn gel
Burn-gel dressing for partial-thickness. Plain non-stick dressing if no gel pad available. Loose wrap.
Checkpoint · Loose · non-stick
04
of 04
Avoid
Skip the folk remedies
No butter, no toothpaste, no ice, no oils. All four cause additional tissue damage. The first three were 1970s kitchen advice - they're wrong.
Checkpoint · Nothing greasy
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Common Pitfalls
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Mistakes to watch for · 3 of them
Folk remedies and other ways to make it worse
What goes wrong
What to do instead
01 · Folk
Butter, toothpaste, or ice on a burn.
Instead
Cool water 10–20 min, then a non-stick or burn-gel dressing. Nothing greasy.
02 · Common
Digging at a foreign body in the eye.
Instead
Flush gently. If it doesn't come out, cover both eyes (yes, both) and transport.
03 · Critical
Assuming a snoring, unconscious patient is breathing fine.
Instead
Snoring = partial obstruction. Reposition the head (chin lift), and call 911.
Lesson 06 · Burns + airway
Summary
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Recap · 3 takeaways
Mapped to objectives 01–03
Burns, eyes, and airway recap
01
Burns: cool water for 10–20 minutes, then a non-stick dressing. Nothing greasy.
Maps to · Objective 01
02
Eyes: flush, don't dig. Cover both eyes for foreign body, transport.
Maps to · Objective 02
03
Snoring breathing = blocked airway. Reposition the head, call 911.
Maps to · Objective 03
Transcript
Lesson six: burns, eyes, and airway. Three emergencies that need specific tools - and that suffer from decades of folk remedies that make them worse. We'll separate the evidence from the kitchen-table advice.
Transcript
Three skills. Treat a burn with the right cooling and dressing. Manage an eye injury - including the one most people get wrong by digging at the foreign body. And recognize a snoring airway in an unconscious patient.
Transcript
Burn-gel dressings - Water-Jel, Burnshield - are pre-soaked pads that cool and seal a burn at the same time. They come in sizes from pocket-sized to chest-sized. Ideal for partial-thickness burns. For full-thickness - the deep, leathery, painless kind - just cover and transport.
Transcript
Burn care is a four-step procedure. The first three you can do in any kitchen; the fourth is the part most people get wrong because of decades of bad folk advice.
Transcript
Three pitfalls that come up again and again in burns, eyes, and airway. Folk remedies on burns, digging at eye debris, and the snoring breathing pattern people assume is fine because the patient is 'just sleeping.'
Transcript
Three takeaways. Cool water on burns, never anything greasy. Flush eye injuries, never dig. And snoring in an unconscious patient means the airway is partly closed - reposition and call.