If your cat is unfortunately burned by a fire, how should you deal with the burnt parts of the cat? Here are some ways to deal with burns in cats compiled by the editor.

1. Local therapy

1. For superficial burns, only clean and treat the wound. After shearing, use less irritating disinfectants (0.05% chlorhexidine), surgical polyvinylpyrrolidone iodine solution or physiological saline to clean the wound and apply cold compresses.

2. Deep burns: If the burn occurs within 2 hours after the injury, cool the wound surface at 3 to 17°C (approximately 15°C is best) for 30 minutes.

3. For the treatment of burns, aseptic procedures should be adopted as much as possible as during surgery. Thoroughly clean the area with the above disinfectant.

4. Wound resection should be performed carefully. Although it is difficult to determine the extent of burns in cats in the early stages of the disease, a large amount of necrotic tissue must be removed. When a blister forms, puncture the contents but do not remove the membrane.

5. In order to prevent infection and promote the formation of carnal tissue, use 0.5% silver nitrate solution (use gauze soaked with damp cloth or 1% sulfadiazine), ointment with antibiotics added to white petroleum jelly, or sulfuric acid Apply 2 to 3 layers of gentamicin ointment on the wound surface, and use warm water baths, showers, etc. to clean the wound surface and remove necrotic tissue.

6. Skin transplantation When the burn area is large, skin transplantation is performed as soon as possible after removing the necrotic tissue. At this time, there is less exudate from the carnal tissue and is beneficial to health. ​​​​​​

2. Whole body therapy

1. Since burns are often life-threatening, the treatment sequence should be determined as early as possible. The outline of the treatment sequence is shown in Table 28-4. First, after checking the respiratory tract, respiratory and circulatory status and taking appropriate measures, treatment for burns begins.

2. When the burn is considered to be moderate or severe, infusion of lactated Ringer's solution should be implemented immediately.

3. On the 3rd to 5th day after injury when the circulation has stabilized, active nutritional supplementation is required.

4. Systemic application of antibiotics is a matter of course, but treatment of large-area burns takes a long time. When antibiotics are used for a long time, sepsis that is ineffective to antibiotics will occur, especially candida sepsis. In addition, for 3 For severe burns, it is difficult for antibiotics to reach the local area of ​​the wound, so preventive application is generally not performed.