Water-Jel Burn Dressing for Facial Burns is a gel-soaked, sterile dressing that stops burn progression, cools the skin, eases pain and protects against airborne contamination. This 12" x 16" burn dressing is especially designed for the face with nose, mouth, and eye slits, as well as eyelid flaps. It is large enough to protect the entire face, ears, neck, and part of the head. Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) Covered: Adult, 7%; Child, 16%
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Available on DLA ECAT
NSN: 6510-01-439-5735
CEC: SPM2D0-09-D-0009
Water-Jel Burn Dressings are a gelatinized water mix designed to perform the four critical steps for burn management in one application. Because of their gelatinous nature, they seal the burn from further contamination, they cool the burn site and relieve pain by heat transfer into themselves, and the fluids on the burn site cannot soak into the dressing nor can they evaporate through them. Finally, as the burn site cools down, the dressing warms up, leaving the site covered by a warm dressing, helping to prevent hypothermia.
Water-Jel Burn Dressings will absorb temperatures in excess of 2000° F — extremely important when you consider that human bone carbonizes at 1400° F and other dressings could melt into the site. With Water-Jel, there is plenty of extra gel to use on any hyperemic or stasis sites surrounding the main burn, and the gel can be left on for more than four hours.
Dimensions: 12" x 16"
Weight: 0.85 lb.
Sterile