serial halving

[Gordon Hines]

Has anybody out there heard of "serial halving" in relation to burns
assessment? It cropped up on a recent paramedic entrance paper but no-one,
including the SDO's , had heard of it.

GMH - TENYAS

[Blippie]

Yep, it was in twice on mine! No idea! Googling didn't help.

Cheers

Blippie
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[M Glickman]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:57:01 +0100, "Blippie"
<ne...@blip.remove-this.pie.org.uk> wrote:

>Yep, it was in twice on mine! No idea! Googling didn't help.
>
>Cheers
>
>Blippie

Courtesy of the Emergency Care Online mailing list archives at
www.eco999.com

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Rule of Halves works like this:

Any area on the body equals 100%, eg 1 arm = 100%. If you burn from
wrist to
elbow you burn 50% of 100% of the Arm, from wrist to mid forearm would
be
25% and so on.

The trick with the rule of halves is that when passing information
regarding
burns to Control/Receiving Hospital to NOT USE THE WHOLE BODY AS 100%,
as
the rule of nines did.

If, however the whole body becomes burnt then the whole body WILL
BECOME
100%. E.g. burnt from feet to nipple line then burns would be
described as
75% of 100% of whole body.
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Apparently this method is preferred by burns consultants, although I
don't understand why it is better than the rule of nines.

Michael
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M Glickman
Gateshead Hatzola Community First Aid Service Gateshead UK
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[mrssuzi...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Just to let you know, you have got the wrong idea about serial halving. The whole body is 100%, if half of the body was burnt it would be 50%, quarter 25% etc. This method is a quick, pre-hospital method to use on scene as it doesn't require complicated calculations but it's not as accurate as the Lund and Browder chart.

Kind Regards,

Suzie

Sister/Burn Care Advisor
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Bucks.