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Module 2: Basic Surgical Skills

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ACUTE BURN MANAGEMENT• Treat burned hands with special care to preserve function• Cover hands with silver sulfadiazine, place in loosepolythene gloves or bags secured at wrist• Elevate hands first 48 hours, then start hand exercises• At least once a day, remove gloves, bathe hands, inspectburn, reapply silver sulfadiazine, gloves• If skin grafting necessary, consider treatment by specialistafter healthy granulation tissue appears76 |Emergency and Essential <strong>Surgical</strong> Care (EESC) programmewww.who.int/surgery

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