It has been known that burn injury is the most common and most agonizing injury. There are some factors that causes burns, including heat, chemicals, electricity, radiation, and even extreme cold. It can greatly affect the skin, eyes, lungs, and internal organs. The skin damaged caused by the burn can be classified as first, second, and third degree. However, the treatment option may depend on the type and cause of the burn.
Utmost heat, electricity, or chemicals can burn a variety of internal organs, similar to skin. These burns are typically very serious as they affect organs that are even less equipped to deal with damage than the skin is. If a person has severe burn, his internnal organs, esophagus and lung, are likely to be damaged. Other internal organs are also potentially damaged.
Electricity can also burn the inside of a person’s body if a high enough voltage is administered. Electrical burns can cause permanent damage to the organs. Irregular heart beat and problems in the nervous systme can also occur. The nervous system can be damaged by electricity because it works on tiny impulses going from nerve to nerve.
The following are the complications brought about by electrical burn:
Serious and long-lasting physical, emotional, and financial implications may result from the complication caused by the morbidity in patient who survived such burns. It may be required from the patient with necrosis of gastrointestinal tissue at the burn site to undergo surgical resection of variable lengths of intestine and either temporary or permanent colostomy. The ailment may go on for many months and the patient is required to be away from worm for long periods of time but treatment can be very expensive.
One of the most well-known form of electrosurgery is robot-assisted surgery. Robotic surgery is used by surgeons to perform complex surgeries. Health issues, such as death and injuries, have called the attention of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate on what have been causing the growing number of reports of malfunctions and complications.
References:
rightdiagnosis.com/e/electrical_burns/complic.htm
healthofchildren.com/E-F/Electric-Shock-Injuries.html
netplaces.com/first-aid/anywhere-events/burns-thermal-chemical-and-other.htm
ezinearticles.com/?Internal-Burns&id=1468319
Utmost heat, electricity, or chemicals can burn a variety of internal organs, similar to skin. These burns are typically very serious as they affect organs that are even less equipped to deal with damage than the skin is. If a person has severe burn, his internnal organs, esophagus and lung, are likely to be damaged. Other internal organs are also potentially damaged.
Electricity can also burn the inside of a person’s body if a high enough voltage is administered. Electrical burns can cause permanent damage to the organs. Irregular heart beat and problems in the nervous systme can also occur. The nervous system can be damaged by electricity because it works on tiny impulses going from nerve to nerve.
The following are the complications brought about by electrical burn:
- Unconsciousness
- Coma
- Amnesia
- Tranverse myelitis – if spinal cord is involved
- Heart attack
- Permanent nerve damage
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Kidney failure
- Internal burns
- Respiratory arrest
- Destruction of red blood cells
- Retinal detachment
- High blood pressure
- Mental changes
- Muscle necrosis
- Hemorrhage
- Anemia
- Paresis
- Paralysis
- Loss of part of or whole limb
- Bone fractures
- Cataract – usually delayed
- Death
Serious and long-lasting physical, emotional, and financial implications may result from the complication caused by the morbidity in patient who survived such burns. It may be required from the patient with necrosis of gastrointestinal tissue at the burn site to undergo surgical resection of variable lengths of intestine and either temporary or permanent colostomy. The ailment may go on for many months and the patient is required to be away from worm for long periods of time but treatment can be very expensive.
One of the most well-known form of electrosurgery is robot-assisted surgery. Robotic surgery is used by surgeons to perform complex surgeries. Health issues, such as death and injuries, have called the attention of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate on what have been causing the growing number of reports of malfunctions and complications.
References:
rightdiagnosis.com/e/electrical_burns/complic.htm
healthofchildren.com/E-F/Electric-Shock-Injuries.html
netplaces.com/first-aid/anywhere-events/burns-thermal-chemical-and-other.htm
ezinearticles.com/?Internal-Burns&id=1468319
RSS Feed