Background

- Interrupt the burning process
- Address any life-threatening process based on MARCH assessment as directed by TCCC.
- A burned trauma casualty is a trauma casualty first
- All TCCC skills can be performed through burned tissue

Burn Characteristics

- Superficial burns (1st degree) appear red, do not blister, and blanch readily.
- Partial thickness burns (2nd degree) are moist and sensate, blister, and blanch.
- Full thickness burns (3rd degree) appear leathery, dry, non-blanching, are insensate, and often contain thrombosed vessels