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07-14-2012, 03:18 AM
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Re: Laying Burned in the ER Table
Not a waffle maker. They actually cut the skin like that to help with all the swelling. Keeps the skin or what's left hopefully salvageable.
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07-14-2012, 03:30 AM
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Re: Laying Burned in the ER Table
To many full thickness burns to more than 95% of the body.. Not to include the pulmonary edema that he will have from inhalation of hot gasses while he was ablaze. Mortality is absolutely certain.. Suck to be a burn victim. The pain meds are very limited because of diminished pulmonary function. He is just going to end up drowning in his fluids that are building up in his lungs.   |
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07-31-2013, 10:02 AM
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Re: Laying Burned in the ER Table
He could have survived if the back side of his body isn't burnt, however, I don't think this is the case. He most certainly died within a few days of the burn from either dehydration or infection. The most difficult battle fought after a major burn is of dehydration, since it is our skin that holds in most of the water in our body. LR solution is commonly used, but sometimes the body dehydrates so fast that they can't keep up with the loss, and the patient dies of dehydration.
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