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I might be off the wall with this but Isn't a burn with debris (debris being clothing, burned skin, ointment)also like an impaled object? Leave it and let the trauma team/doctors remove it. By pulling it out (in this case wiping the area) you will be doing more damage to the already affected area and beyond. If you have a burn patient who still has clothing embedded in the burn it self would you pull it out? My opinion leave it and let then people who specialize in burns take care of it the way it needs to be. If it is a isolated burn then when you apply a sterile dressing and normal saline (or what ever you use) wouldn't that wash some of the ointment away? My thinking "YES" it would. But to wipe the ointment off of a burned area you could pop a blister. And what is a blister... the body's "Band-Aid". Again this might be off the wall.

Maryland Region 3.... Only after all other means of I.V. access* have been exhausted, with patient meeting priority 1 standards, and after medical consultation**. *peripheral (arms then legs), external jugular, adult I.O. ** you better present one hell of a presentation, I in 12 yrs have NEVER heard of a doctor giving the "OK".