- Author
- Fozzard, H. A. | Jackson, R. | Moore, M. G., Jr. | Davis, D. C. | Coleman, R. | Crowley, T. P.
- Title
- Treatment of SevereThermal Burns With Digoxin and Intraveneous Fluids.
- Coporate
- Naval Medical Field Research Lab., Camp Lejeune, NC
- Report
- DASA 1151, September 1959, 12 p.
- Keywords
- thermal burns | burn therapy | patients | animals | blood pressure
- Identifiers
- dogs
- Abstract
- Burn shock endagers the patient principally during the first 24 to 48 hours and is responsible for many deaths from burns. The cardiodynamic factors usually associated with burn shock include decreased cardiac output, peripheral vasoconstruction, decreased blood volume, and a late fall in arterial blood pressure. Blalock and others have concluded that the principle factor in the production of burn shock in humans and animals is a reduction in venous retrun to the heart from loss of plasma into the burned area. Harkins and Evals et al have studied this fluid loss carefully, and the latter group has developed a formula for calculating the fluid required to restore blood volume.