Health Promotion: Preventing Burns
The skin is the largest organ in the human body and consists of three layers, the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue. The epidermis is the outermost layer, followed by the thickest layer, the dermis, then the subcutaneous or fat layer. A burn is an injury to the skin caused by one of six mechanisms of injury: contact burns, fires, radiation, electrical, chemical and scalding (?Thermal Burns?, 2017). There are an estimated 450,000 people treated in the emergency department in the […]