Adult Male Chemical Burn to Body

Faline · #1 02-10-2013, 10:02 AM

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A young adult male working in a factory was accidently exposed to anhydrous ammonia gas. He was referred to the plastic surgery unit.

He underwent a wash of all his chemical burn areas in the casualty with copious amount of water then surgical debridement and regular dressings were applied. He made an uneventful recovery and was advised skin grafting but did decided not to have it.

Showing back and bilateral buttock burns:

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Getting ready to be washed down:

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Wounds healing up nicely:

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Before discharge from hospital:

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Follow up appointment shows good healing but raw spotty areas that would benefit from skin grafting but the patient refused treatment:

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Below is a video of the body being washed down.

Sharon · #2 02-10-2013, 10:22 AM

Wonder why he refused skin grafts? Maybe he'd suffered enough.

Pyramid_Head · #3 02-10-2013, 11:26 AM

That has to feel like hell on earth.

grimekeepa · #4 02-10-2013, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharon.

Wonder why he refused skin grafts? Maybe he'd suffered enough.

Just a guess, but I dont think his country has the same type of health care and thats why he turned down treatment. If I was a poor factory worker that was told that i could have something fixed that wasn't killing me but would cost most of what I had ... Id go around looking ugly too.

khiarhu · #5 02-11-2013, 12:23 AM

Ouch, got to wonder how it happened - like, how he managed to have such a severe accident at work. Poor guy, you know that fuckin' HURT.

mintycbo · #6 02-11-2013, 03:22 AM

I don't know..Anhydrous Ammonia...not sure about it burning your flesh..but I know if inhaled it would kill you..if not mistaken it is Ammonia with the absense of water in a gaseous form used in fertilizers, and productions of methamphetimine..

And will cause immediate damage to throat and lungs...
I don't think this man was burned by anhydrous ammonia..

Here -
http://www.ndhealth.gov/epr/resources/anhydrous.htm

Viking64 · #7 02-11-2013, 05:41 AM

With those black pillows, he almost looks like an F1 car from above.

HeadlessHorseman · #8 02-12-2013, 06:05 AM

Holy shit, that is some bad burning. That must be VERY painful. Looks pretty good in the last photo's.

durt · #9 02-12-2013, 09:41 AM

wonder what the '3rd world' health and safety committee had to say about that accident

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