Third degree burns (full-thickness burns) destroy all layers of skin and can penetrate the underlying fat, muscle, bone and nerve structures. These burns are brown or black with underlying tissues appearing white. Significant medical advances have been made in treating third degree burns, yet they continue to be a serious medical condition. Third degree burns tend to leave scars which can be disfiguring. Particularly if a burn scar is on the face or hands of a child or young woman, the chances of significant social and professional loss over time is significant. Anyone who has suffered a third degree burn in a car fire explosion, through a scalding accident, in an industrial chemical exposure burn, or in an workplace explosion is likely to experience great pain and loss of time from work or school in the short term. Long term, a third degree burn victim may have to deal with chronic pain and limitation of normal activities. Ongoing treatment, therapy, vocational rehabilitation, and plastic surgery (including possible skin grafts) inevitably result in extraordinary expense and inconvenience. Burn Injury Online is provided as a source of knowledge and hope for third degree burn victims and their families. The sponsors of this Web site have cultivated working relationships with top internationally renown experts who care and treat burn injury victims and with expert forensic engineers who identify the "root-cause" of the burn producing event. These experts and physicians have trained at the most prestigious academic institutions and are held in high esteem by their peers in the scientific community. Lawyers, medical researchers, and healthcare providers collaborate to pursue medical and legal remedies for third degree burn injury victims. To request an attorney's thoughtful evaluation of a full-thickness, third-degree burn case, contact us in New York through this Web site. |
