Eight patients required fascial excisions and four required debridement of devascularized bone. Nine (50%) of these were initially recognized to be fourth-degree and five (28%) were third-degree thermal injuries, showing that these are deep burns. Eighteen patients with contact burns from engine parts were identified from 1980 through 1990. Ten-year data from the University of Washington Burn Unit confirmed our observation that these bums tend to be considerably deeper than suspected. As a result, each patient required multiple procedures to close their burn wounds. N2 - We recently treated two patients with engine block-muffler contact burns and greatly underestimated the devastating injuries to bone, deep fascia, and muscle. T2 - Dupuytren’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-degree burns
They behave like and should be handled more like electrical burns than other contact injuries.", We propose that burns from engine block or muffler contact are the fourth, fifth, and sixth-degree injuries described by Dupuytren in 1832.
6th degree burn full#
If the burn appears full thickness, suspicion must be very high at the initial surgical procedure that there is deep tissue destruction. Our 10-year data indicate that engine block contact burns are usually small, but most are deceptively deep, involving tendon, muscle, or bone. Of the entire group, only four healed without surgery and only five healed with a single operation. The four patients with partial-thickness burns healed without surgery and their average length of hospital stay was 3 days. Thirty-six percent of patients required flaps either as the initial procedure or as a second procedure following an autograft. Patients with third-degree burns also had suboptimal graft take and some required prolonged hospitalization. The mean burn size was only 6% total body surface area however, the patients with fourth-degree burns had an average graft take of only 56% and required a mean hospital stay of 44 days.
They behave like and should be handled more like electrical burns than other contact injuries.Ībstract = "We recently treated two patients with engine block-muffler contact burns and greatly underestimated the devastating injuries to bone, deep fascia, and muscle.
We recently treated two patients with engine block-muffler contact burns and greatly underestimated the devastating injuries to bone, deep fascia, and muscle.
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