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Thermal trauma is any burn-related injury that can potentially lead to serious outcomes. There are various causes of thermal trauma, including fire, radiant heat, radiation, chemical, or electrical contact, [1] that can affect a person in many ways based on factors from anatomical and physiological factors. Depending on the severity of the ...
For example, a burn on the skin (the injury) may be the result of a thermal, chemical, radioactive, or electrical event (the insult). [1] Likewise sepsis and trauma are examples of foreign insults, [ 2 ] and encephalitis , multiple sclerosis , and brain tumors are examples of insults to the brain. [ 3 ]
A thermal burn is a type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water, steam, hot cooking oil, fire, and hot objects. Scalds are the most common type of thermal burn suffered by children, but for adults thermal burns are most commonly caused by fire. [ 2 ]
Flash burn is any burn injury caused by intense flashes of light, high voltage electric current, [1] or strong thermal radiation. [2] These may originate from, for example, a sufficiently large BLEVE, a thermobaric weapon explosion or a nuclear blast of sufficient magnitude. Damage to the eye(s) caused by ultraviolet rays is known as ...
A nail gun-related injury. Machines are commonplace in many industries, including manufacturing, mining, construction and agriculture, [11] and can be dangerous to workers. . Many machines involve moving parts, sharp edges, hot surfaces and other hazards with the potential to crush, burn, cut, shear, stab or otherwise strike or wound workers if used unsafely
Thermal injuries were among the main or contributing causes of last year’s 645 heat-related deaths in Maricopa County, ... But that doesn’t mean you’re useless.” ...
An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 25 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles.The father was found at his son’s bedside. One victim told a relative that he did not ...
Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between a gas space inside, or in contact with, the body and the surrounding gas or liquid. [1] [2] The initial damage is usually due to over-stretching the tissues in tension or shear, either directly by an expansion of the gas in the closed space or by pressure difference hydrostatically transmitted through the ...