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burn: a standalone construct

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burn1 CONSTRUCTBurn injuryJACKSON · 1953

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Clinical medicine

Tissue injury from heat, chemicals, or radiation

In medicine a burn is tissue damage caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, friction, or radiation, graded by how deep it reaches, from superficial epidermal through partial-thickness to full-thickness destruction of the skin. Jackson's 1953 The diagnosis of the depth of burning set out the zones of a burn wound, the central coagulation and the surrounding zones of stasis and hyperaemia, that still frame how depth and survival of tissue are judged. The word is the everyday consequence of combustion applied to living tissue, but the construct is a clinical injury and its depth. The referent is a graded tissue injury, distinct from the combustion reaction itself or a photographic exposure step.[1]

Unit
The depth and body-surface extent of heat or chemical injury to tissue
Recovery means
Partial-thickness burns can re-epithelialise; full-thickness burns destroy the regenerative layer and require grafting
Measured by
Assessed by burn depth (degree) and percentage of total body surface area affected

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References

  1. Jackson, D. M. (1953). The diagnosis of the depth of burning. British Journal of Surgery, 40(164), 588–596. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.18004016413

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