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Initial Escharotomies and Fasciotomies

ID: exh58232b
This stock medical exhibit features illustrations depicting initial steps following a patient's total body burns of over ninety four percent sustained in a fire. The first image shows an anterior silhouetted figure and provides the locations of the initial escharotomy sites into the arms, legs, chest, flank and abdomen. The second illustration shows an escharotomy being performed on a severely burned arm. The third illustration again provides an anterior silhouetted figure to outline the locations of the initial fasciotomy sites into the arms and legs. The final illustration shows a fasciotomy being performed on a severely burned arm to release the muscles.
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