Burn Injury Types

Burn injuries can cause intense physical pain and emotional anguish. In addition, burn injury victims often have to undergo several reconstructive surgeries and pursue lengthy rehabilitation. Depending on the type of burn injury, victims might lose sensation in certain body parts and become unable to work. In order to help New York burn injury victims and their families learn more about the symptoms and treatment of various types of burn injuries, this website explains the following injuries:

  • Inhalation Burns. These injuries are caused by inhalation of heat, smoke or chemicals, such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.
  • Thermal Burns. These burns are caused by contact with flames, steam, hot liquids and other sources of intense heat.
  • Chemical Burns. This type of injury is caused by contact with an acid or alkali.
  • Radiation Burns. These burns are caused by exposure to nuclear radiation or ultraviolet light.
  • Light / Sun Burns. These burns are commonly caused by strong sunlight and/or tanning bed ultraviolet light.
  • Scalding / Water Burns. These injuries are caused by close contact with hot water and other liquids.

Burns are usually classified by the degree:

  • First Degree Burns. These superficial burns involve only the top layer of skin. The skin is red, painful and dry, but usually heals on its own without scarring within a week.
  • Second Degree Burns. These partial thickness burns involve the top layers of skin. Not only is the skin red, but it blisters and may weep clear fluid. This burn usually heals in 3–4 weeks and may scar.
  • Third Degree Burns. These 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.

Some consequences of serious burn injuries are as follows:

  • Skin may lose the ability to re-grow where third degree burns are suffered. Undamaged skin from another part of the body can often be transplanted to the damaged area.
  • A person with severely burned and scarred skin tissue may lose feeling in the affected area.
  • A seriously burned victims' skin may not perspire normally as the quality and ability of the skin tissue has been damaged.
  • Dead skin must be removed to help prevent infection because dead tissue from burns is a breeding ground for bacteria and infection.

Burn Injury Online is provided as a source of knowledge and hope for burn victims and their families. The sponsors of this Web site are experienced NY burn injury lawyers who have cultivated working relationships with top internationally renowned 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 burn injury victims.

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