Will Burnaid cause Hypothermia?
Any type of cooling modality has the potential to cause hypothermia. Burnaid has a less chance of causing hypothermia than running water over full body surface area as it is target specific to the burn area. Placing the Burnaid dressing directly over the affect area cools the burn and avoids rapid cooling on other body surface area as does showering or hosing the patient. Care should be taken to avoid hypothermia especially in those patients who are most at risk; infants, elderly and those with large surface area burns. It is recommend for such patients that cooling of the burn are persist with Burnaid and that cling film, light open weave bandage, space blankets or normal blankets be placed onto the patient and use the heat transferred out of the burn wound to keep core body temperature normo-thermic.
