Burn is an injury which is quite often encountered by doctors, the kind that shows severe

morbidity and degree of disability is relatively high compared to the injury of another
condition. The cost involved is also quite expensive to handle. Causes burns in addition to the
fire (directly or indirectly), as well as exposure to high temperatures from the sun, electricity
and chemicals. Burns caused by a fire or an indirect result of the fire (eg splashed by hot)
occur in a household accident. (Sjamsuhidajat, 2005)
Having regard to the basic principles of resuscitation in trauma and its application at the right
time is expected to decrease as small as possible the figures mentioned above. The basic
principles include awareness of impending airway disorders in patients who experience
trauma inhalation, maintaining hemodynamic within normal limits with fluid resuscitation,
knowing and treating penyulit- complications that may occur due to electrical trauma, such as
rhabdomyolysis and cardiac dysrhythmia. Controlling body temperature and keep / remove
people from the neighborhood hot trauma is also a key principle of handling thermal trauma.
(American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, 1997)
The skin is a complex organ that provides the first body defense against possible adverse
environments. The skin protects the body against infections, prevent the loss of body fluids,
helps control body temperature, serves as the sensory organs and excretion, aiding in the
process of activation of vitamin D, and affect the image of the body. Burns are a common
thing, but it is a form of skin injury that is largely preventable. (Horne and Swearingen, 2000)
The National Institute of Burn Medicine is to collect those statistics from various
burn centers throughout the United States noted that the majority of patients
(75%) are victims of their own actions. Doused with boiling water to children who
are just learning to walk, playing with lighters at the age of school children,
injured by electric current in adolescent males, the use of drugs, alcohol and
cigarettes in adults all have contributed to the numbers the statistics (Brunner &
Suddarth, 2001).