Thermal Injuries (Burns)
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Thermal injuries
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THERMAL INJURIES (BURNS)
“TISSUE DAMAGE DUE TO APPLICATION OF HEAT IS TERMED AS A THERMAL
INJURY”
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TYPES OF THERMAL INJURIES
•DRY HEAT BURNS. (Direct Heat Application) •MOIST HEAT BURNS. (Hot Fluid Application) •RADIATION BURNS. (Due to different radiations) •ELECTRIC BURNS. •CHEMICAL BURNS. (Acid/Alkali burns)
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Duty of the doctor
Sec 174-A CrPc Makes it binding on the medical doctor who attend a burn victim to record the victim statement, which becomes admissible as “DYING DECLARATION" if victim dies.
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FORENSIC SIGNIFICANCE
•Identity of deceased?
•Whether the burns are postmortem?
•Whether the burning is actual cause of death?
•Accident? Suicidal? Or homicidal?
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Corrosive burns
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• Discoloration and staining of skin • Singeing of hairs absent • Vesicles rarely found • Followed by keloid scar and disfigurement
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Radiations burns
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• Sunlight • X-ray • Laser • Microwave
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– Degenerative changes • Sun burns varies from erythema to vesication
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DRY HEAT BURNS
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Classification
• DUPUYTREN’S • HEBA’S • WILSON’S
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(WILSON’S THREE – STAGE CLASSIFICATION)
•FIRST DEGREE BURNS: (Epidermal): •Erythema and blistering without loss of dermis. Healing is excellent without scarring.
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• SECOND DEGREE BURNS: (Dermo-epidermal):
•Destruction of full thickness of the skin. Injury does not heal without scarring
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• THIRD DEGREE BURNS: (Deep tissues involved):
• Tissues deep to skin are also burned. • In children 20% body surface burns are
considered life threatening, whereas in adults 40% or more are generally fatal.
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Burnt surface area
• Rule of nine • Lund and Browder chart for children
• More than 15% in adults
– 10% in children resulting in loss of blood volume
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Burn index
• To calculate prognosis and treatment
• At 45 points mortality rate is 50%. – Burn on head, neck ,trunk and gentilia are more
dangerous – Infants ,young children and elderly
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EXTENT OF THERMAL INJURIES MAY RANGE FROM MILD ERYTHEMA (REDNESS) TO
TOTAL INCINERATION OF BODY TISSUES.
SEVERITY OF THERMAL INJURIES DEPENDS UPON
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CAUSES OF DEATH IN BURNS
IMMEDIATE CAUSES LATE CAUSES
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Age of burns
• Redness • Vesication • Purulent inflammation • Superficial slough of third
degree burn thrown off • Deeper slough • Granulation tissue • Scar
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Fatal period
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POSTMORTEM APPEARANCES
depend upon
THE DEGREES OF BURNS
SURVIVAL OF PERSON DURING FIRE
DURATION OF BURNING
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EXTERNAL POSTMORTEM FINDINGS
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• Burnt area may be reddened, blistered or charred.
• Blisters contain albuminous fluid with high chloride content and RBCs.
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EXTERNAL POSTMORTEM FINDINGS
Deposits of carbonaceous material on the body
Hypostasis
‘Pugilistic’ attitude
Heat ‘splits’ of skin
Heat ‘fractures’
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Skull fractures
• Due to heat skull fracture may occur • Affecting outer table of skull • Above the temples consist of several lines
which radiate from a common center • Outward bursting of bone flaps and protrusion
of brain tissue
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Heat hematoma
• Soft friable and spongy clot • Light chocolate brown in color
– Traumatic fracture – Intracranial hematoma related to fracture line – Free from carbon monoxide in ante mortem injury
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• Microscopically
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INTERNAL POSTMORTEM FINDINGS
Blood is thick and cherry red Internal organs resist burning
Evidence or injury Soot and smoke residues in trachea
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MOIST HEAT BURNS (SCALDS)
The responsible liquid may be seen over clothes or body
Skin is soddened and bleached
Vesication is an important feature
Scar are thin Less contraction and disfigurement
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MOIST HEAT BURNS (SCALDS)
No singeing of hair, charring seen Three degrees Redding of skin (erythema) blister formation necrosis of dermis
Usually accidental but may be caused by intent.