Burn Injures are among the most painful injuries that the human body can endure.
These injuries are often not life threatening, but are often life altering.
Recovery for a burn injury can require extensive medical treatments, rehabilitation, and in some cases psychological treatment.
The most common form of a burn Injury is exposure to flame or intense heat.
These are often from accidental exposure to an open heat source or flame, hot liquids or flash burn injuries, typically from an explosion.
Burn injuries can also be caused by incidental contact to an energized electrical source.
Electrical burn injuries differ from others by doing most of the damage to the body internally, rather that externally like exposure to open flame.
Electrical burn injuries are caused when electrical current passes through the body, damaging blood vessels, nerves and muscle.
Electrical burns can also be caused by an explosive electrical incident, where electrical current literally jumps from one electrical contract point to another point.
This is known as an Arc Fault Incident.
The third common classification of burn injuries is a chemical burn.
These are caused when the body is exposed to harsh chemicals.
Differing from either the open flame type injury or the electrical fire injury, which normally occur rapidly, chemical burns severity is dependent on the time of exposure to the chemical.
Prolonged exposure to chemicals can also cause damage to internal organs.
While just as detrimental to the body, such injuries are not typically considered as a burn incident.
Burn injuries are classified as superficial, partial thickness, and full thickness burns.
These classifications replace the older terminology of first, second and third degree burns.
These classifications define the extent of tissue damage.
Superficial- First degree is minor damage to the epidermis (skin).
These typically cause redness, swelling and minor pain.
Sunburn is typically classified as a superficial burn.
Partial thickness burns, previously known as second degree burns is where two layers of the skin are damaged.
This damage extends from the epidermis to the dermis layer of skin.
Full thickness burns are very serious.
All layers of the skin are effected, as well as the underlying tissue.
These injuries differ from the superficial and partial thickness injuries that produce redness, swelling, and minor pain, by producing a leathery brown pattern in the affected areas of the body.
Skin Grafts are normally required for those injured with full thickness burns.
Full thickness burns were previously known as third degree burns.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has a fourth class of burns, known as fourth degree burns.
These consist of damage that extends into the muscle area beneath skin, as well as damage to all layers of the skin.
A further concern of the medical professionals that treat burn victims beyond the damage done to the skin is the risk of infections, which can be life threatening to the victim.
The CDC (Center for Disease Control), based in Atlanta, estimates that approximately 1.
1 million people are injured in burns annually that require medical treatment.
Of this number just over 45% require hospitalization due to those injuries.
These horrific burn accidents continue to occur despite the massive amounts of time and monies that the government, corporations and other institutions spend on burn prevention training.
A realistic analysis of all of the burn accidents should reveal that a percentage of the incidents were preventable, while a large percentage are simply that, accidents, caused by no fault of the injured party.
Burn victims who have burns that are classified as partial or full thickness burns often face lengthy recovery that is both extremely painful as well as expensive.
Long term treatment in a burn center is not cheap.
Many of those injured by burn accidents that were caused due to no fault of the injured parties, may seek compensation for pain, suffering and reimbursement of expenses, through lawsuits against the parties responsible.
To add anguish to the injury by the burn itself, the legal process may take as long or at times longer to reach a satisfactory conclusion as the treatment for the burn itself.
Many of those in this situation, require financial assistance to withstand the financial strains that the burn accident put upon them and their families.
Lawsuit funding companies can provide lawsuit funds for those injured, while they await their day in court.
The amount of assistance is dependent on the specific details of the individual accident, and can only be assessed after a review of the details of the burn accident.
For more information, please contact us today.
And, please be safe around all potential fire or burn sources.
These injuries are often not life threatening, but are often life altering.
Recovery for a burn injury can require extensive medical treatments, rehabilitation, and in some cases psychological treatment.
The most common form of a burn Injury is exposure to flame or intense heat.
These are often from accidental exposure to an open heat source or flame, hot liquids or flash burn injuries, typically from an explosion.
Burn injuries can also be caused by incidental contact to an energized electrical source.
Electrical burn injuries differ from others by doing most of the damage to the body internally, rather that externally like exposure to open flame.
Electrical burn injuries are caused when electrical current passes through the body, damaging blood vessels, nerves and muscle.
Electrical burns can also be caused by an explosive electrical incident, where electrical current literally jumps from one electrical contract point to another point.
This is known as an Arc Fault Incident.
The third common classification of burn injuries is a chemical burn.
These are caused when the body is exposed to harsh chemicals.
Differing from either the open flame type injury or the electrical fire injury, which normally occur rapidly, chemical burns severity is dependent on the time of exposure to the chemical.
Prolonged exposure to chemicals can also cause damage to internal organs.
While just as detrimental to the body, such injuries are not typically considered as a burn incident.
Burn injuries are classified as superficial, partial thickness, and full thickness burns.
These classifications replace the older terminology of first, second and third degree burns.
These classifications define the extent of tissue damage.
Superficial- First degree is minor damage to the epidermis (skin).
These typically cause redness, swelling and minor pain.
Sunburn is typically classified as a superficial burn.
Partial thickness burns, previously known as second degree burns is where two layers of the skin are damaged.
This damage extends from the epidermis to the dermis layer of skin.
Full thickness burns are very serious.
All layers of the skin are effected, as well as the underlying tissue.
These injuries differ from the superficial and partial thickness injuries that produce redness, swelling, and minor pain, by producing a leathery brown pattern in the affected areas of the body.
Skin Grafts are normally required for those injured with full thickness burns.
Full thickness burns were previously known as third degree burns.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has a fourth class of burns, known as fourth degree burns.
These consist of damage that extends into the muscle area beneath skin, as well as damage to all layers of the skin.
A further concern of the medical professionals that treat burn victims beyond the damage done to the skin is the risk of infections, which can be life threatening to the victim.
The CDC (Center for Disease Control), based in Atlanta, estimates that approximately 1.
1 million people are injured in burns annually that require medical treatment.
Of this number just over 45% require hospitalization due to those injuries.
These horrific burn accidents continue to occur despite the massive amounts of time and monies that the government, corporations and other institutions spend on burn prevention training.
A realistic analysis of all of the burn accidents should reveal that a percentage of the incidents were preventable, while a large percentage are simply that, accidents, caused by no fault of the injured party.
Burn victims who have burns that are classified as partial or full thickness burns often face lengthy recovery that is both extremely painful as well as expensive.
Long term treatment in a burn center is not cheap.
Many of those injured by burn accidents that were caused due to no fault of the injured parties, may seek compensation for pain, suffering and reimbursement of expenses, through lawsuits against the parties responsible.
To add anguish to the injury by the burn itself, the legal process may take as long or at times longer to reach a satisfactory conclusion as the treatment for the burn itself.
Many of those in this situation, require financial assistance to withstand the financial strains that the burn accident put upon them and their families.
Lawsuit funding companies can provide lawsuit funds for those injured, while they await their day in court.
The amount of assistance is dependent on the specific details of the individual accident, and can only be assessed after a review of the details of the burn accident.
For more information, please contact us today.
And, please be safe around all potential fire or burn sources.
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