What’s on the Burn Depth poster
A 4-row table: Depth · Looks like · Care.
Educational reference. Cool all burns under running water for 20 minutes first.
- Superficial — Red, dry, painful — Usually home care
- Superficial partial — Blisters, wet, very painful — Medical advice
- Deep partial — Blotchy, less painful — Medical care needed
- Full thickness — White or charred, painless — Emergency
Always seek care for burns to the face, hands, feet, genitals or a joint; any burn larger than the person's palm; and all chemical and electrical burns.
Questions about the Burn Depth poster
- What’s on the Burn Depth poster?
- A 4-row table: Depth · Looks like · Care. Educational reference. Cool all burns under running water for 20 minutes first. Superficial — Red, dry, painful — Usually home care; Superficial partial — Blisters, wet, very painful — Medical advice; Deep partial — Blotchy, less painful — Medical care needed; Full thickness — White or charred, painless — Emergency. Always seek care for burns to the face, hands, feet, genitals or a joint; any burn larger than the person's palm; and all chemical and electrical burns.
- Who is the Burn Depth poster for?
- Burn Depth belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning first aid can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Burn Depth poster?
- Depth matters, but so does size and location. A small burn in the wrong place is still serious. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Burn Depth belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Burn Depth?
- Anaphylaxis, Bleeding & Burns and Choking sit alongside Burn Depth in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AnaphylaxisBleeding & BurnsChoking
- Is the Burn Depth poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Burn Depth downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Burn Depth poster print at?
- Burn Depth is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Burn Depth loses nothing.Printing guide
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