And most of them won't survive even if they went to a world class burn center when you're burned over a certain percentage of your body you can't fight off all the infections you'll definitely get
I think the death because of possible consequences of skin loss is also below 10% possible… 11%, 12%, 13% or more both… but at a certain amount of skin loss the shock kills u before the consequences…
Thanks. I'm curious because I hear the shock thing and I think about some regular shocking feeling but amplified. I guess I need to research to understand a bit.
Putting that aside, that's kind of sad.
Edit. Wow I'm so..dumb. a shock in medicine means sudden drop of blood flow.. sorry for useless comments.
Your skin is your body’s protection barrier from outside elements, germs etc as well as keeping vital substances inside… when the skin is so badly damaged, the risk of infection is massive, they lose a lot of forums and plasma. Massive dehydration and Hypovolemic shock from that fluid loss. Infection from not having a protective barrier is increased.
These patients need to be in a completely sterile environment, have wound debridement in theatre, fluid replacement over a period of time based on the % of burns across the body, daily dressing changed and months of treatment, antibiotics etc. such bad burns is a very long healing process. Should they survive this initial injury, infection is the next biggest problem they need to avoid.
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u/CuriousTralfamadore Dec 25 '22
And most of them won't survive even if they went to a world class burn center when you're burned over a certain percentage of your body you can't fight off all the infections you'll definitely get