What to do if you get burned by electricity

Accidents are everywhere. In our daily lives, we may cut our hands while working, sprain our ankle while walking, or get electrocuted by a power socket leak while cooking. Many accidents catch us off guard. Everyone knows that electric current generates heat. What should we do if we accidentally get electric shock and burns? Here are some first aid methods for electrical burns.

In life, if there is leakage of electricity or electric shock, it may cause electric burns to the hands. Because the electric current will generate heat in the tissue and cause damage to tissue protein, this phenomenon is called electric burns. Generally speaking, the conditions of patients with electric burns are relatively serious, and only reasonable treatment can reduce the damage caused by electric burns to the body. This can be handled in the following ways.

1. First aid on the spot . Once an electrical burn occurs, the patient should be immediately isolated from the power source using insulating objects. If the patient experiences respiratory and cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be performed immediately.

2. Comprehensive inspection . You should learn more about the patient's medical history and check whether the patient has brain injury, internal organ injury and fracture. Patients with cardiac arrhythmia should be monitored in the ICU.

3. Fluid resuscitation . Fluids should be replenished according to the area of ​​electrical burns on the patient to avoid serious kidney damage. The amount of infusion needs to be comprehensively weighed according to the patient's condition and closely monitored.

4. Prevent anaerobic bacterial infection. Since electrical burns are open injuries, patients may experience extensive necrosis of deep tissues and are extremely susceptible to infection. Patients should take anti-inflammatory drugs appropriately, such as cephalosporin, erythromycin, amoxicillin-sulbactam corticosteroid tablets, etc. Please purchase and use them according to the drug instructions or under the guidance of a pharmacist.

5. Bed rest: Regardless of whether the burn disease is serious or not, you should pay attention to bed rest, observe the patient's condition progress, and use exposure therapy to treat the wound. At the same time, you should pay attention to wound disinfection, generally disinfecting 2 to 3 times each time.

6. Surgical treatment: If the patient's hand burns are more serious, surgical treatment should be adopted after determining the scope of necrotic tissue and eschar. The dead tissue was completely removed and the wound was bandaged with gauze. Surgery should be performed again after 2 to 3 days to completely remove the patient's necrotic tissue, suture the wound, or perform skin grafting.

7. Drainage: If the patient's wound is infected, attention should be paid to wound drainage, and necrotic tissue and eschar should be gradually detected in the wound until granulation tissue grows in the wound and skin grafting is used for repair.

8. Antibiotics: If the patient has a serious infection, antibiotics should be used to treat the disease. If the condition is very serious, amputation should be considered.