8-year-old girl admitted for severe second- and third-degree burns following her rescue from a burning house. History: Angela Creighton‚ an 8-year-old white female‚ was transported by ambulance to the emergency room after being rescued from her burning house. She was asleep at night when a spark from the family fireplace started a fire‚ leaving her trapped in her bedroom. By the time the fire rescue squad arrived‚ she had suffered severe burns and excessive smoke inhalation. In the emergency room‚
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of damage seen in first-degree burns‚ second-degree burns‚ and third degree burns. First degree burns only epidermis is damaged and skin is red and swollen. Second-degree burns epidermis and upper dermis are damaged. Third-degree burns destroys entire skin layer; burned area is painless and the burn is gray-white or black. 3. Why was the girl relatively pain-free when she woke up? Due to having third-degree burns on 15% off her body and since third degree burns are painless her body was probably
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cup. As she removed the lid‚ the entire contents of the cup spilled into her lap. The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next to her skin. A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body‚ including her inner thighs‚ perineum‚ buttocks‚ and genital and groin areas. She was hospitalized for eight days‚ during which time she underwent skin grafting. Liebeck‚ who also underwent debridement treatments
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of Stella Liebeck ’s suit against McDonalds. As you will see‚ the coffee temperature can cause third degree burns in a matter of seconds‚ McDonalds had settled many other cases before Stella ’s (and she initially only sought a small amount of money for her daughter ’s time away from work and her own medical expenses)‚ McDonald ’s lawyer in closing argument blamed the severity of her burns on the fact that she was old and had very thin skin‚ the punitive award was reduced by the trial judge‚ and the
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QUESTIONING RECORD QCF Diploma Level: ………………………………………………………………. Written Oral Candidate Name: ……………………………………………………………….… QCF Unit Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria Questions / Answers 346 346 346 346 346 346 1 1 1 3 3 4 1 3‚ 4
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leave the enemy dead or with everlasting effects from the burns. Not only was it dangerous‚ it was also versatile in that it could be used in a variety of delivery methods. Napalm was used very wildly during the Vietnam War. Napalm is “chemical mixture of aluminum‚ oleic acid‚ coconut fatty acid‚ naphthenic‚ and an acid produced from petroleum” (new standard encyclopedia). Napalm is like a sticky jelly that is extremely flammable and can burn for up to ten minutes creating temperatures ranging anywhere
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man took great risk. He brought out the staff in the room who couldn’t escape and came down amidst flames. By doing so he himself was injured. The moment he brought down one of the inmates‚ he fell unconscious. Even the rescued teacher had serious burn injuries. The injured were immediately rushed to the hospital. However‚ with a great deal of efforts the fire was finally extinguished but it caused great damage and destruction to the school. Furniture‚ valuable articles and other belongings burnt
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this case as the punch-line to countless jokes.1 One of my favorite Seinfeld episodes involves Cosmo Kramer suing Java World after Kramer spills a cup of café latté on himself while trying to get a seat at a movie theater.2 Kramer suffers from minor burns that are easily remedied after a single application of a balm given to Kramer by the Maestro. Kramer asks
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subject‚ most of them involve me being hurt all the time which explains why I am such a clumsy person. Most of the time it deals with my aunt dropping me down the stairs or having the tissue of my skin literally come off the muscles cause of a 2nd degree burn as a four year old toddler being set on a rail at a 105 degree amusement park. If it wasn’t being hurt it was definitely learning family values and having respect not just for my family but for everyone. On top of the respect it was making sure I understood
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In earlier days‚ a burn victim was treated with skin graft from unharmed part of the body‚ which if not available‚ a section of skin was obtained from a donor preferably a cadaver. This was basically done because unlike most wounds‚ skin damaged from thermal injuries can never repair themselves and to make the matter worse‚ a person can die from the accident due to loss of plasma and from infection. The latter source of allograft often led to rejection by the recipient’s immune system. So‚ in case
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