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All right, so this question says, a seven -year -old boy's patient in your intensive care unit.
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He was on a camping trip with a family when he accidentally fell on a campfire, causing severe second and third degree burns over 60 % of the body.
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The clinical care team tells his parents that it will be critical to maintain their son's air weight and keep his fluid levels high.
00:20
In your initial post answers the final question, the father is confused and asks you why his son's foot level is important after a burn.
00:28
How would you explain this to him? so to get in this question, i would simply explain to him that the skin is simply a barrier that helps keep the body insulated and helps keep fluids in our body.
00:40
Okay, so the skin is kind of just like the outer casing, i guess you could say of us.
00:47
And so when you have a severe burn, second and third degree burns and covering 60 % of the body, much of the body is now going to be exposed to the open.
00:59
And basically fluid will start to seep out through those burns and the fluid loss will be quite high.
01:07
Okay, so i'd explain that to him.
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After he understands that, we would go into the next question.
01:14
After explanation, if i are not, they understand, he then asked how you will measure his son's fluid levels.
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So in this scenario, there are a lot of options.
01:25
So i would explain that there are many different formulas available for, measuring his fluid levels.
01:31
But i'm going to be using a formula called the modified parkland formula...