I am now working in the Burn Intensive Care Unit. In addition to patients with burns, we also take care of people with a wide variety of diseases and infections involving the skin. Here is a random sample of the patients currently in the Burn Unit:
-A man who was found on the side of the road after someone slashed his throat and lit him on fire. The passenger in his vehicle was burnt alive.
-A woman who suffered a severe reaction called toxic epidermal necrolysis to an antibiotic she was given. Much of the skin on her body blistered and peeled completely off.
-Another woman who became infected with "the flesh eating bacteria" aka necrotizing fasciitis causing her to have her right arm amputated and to lose the flesh over most of her right torso.
-A diabetic man with necrotizing fasciitis of the groin aka Fournier's gangrene which required us to remove his scrotum and implant his testicles into his thighs.
As you can tell, there is never a dull moment in the Burn Unit.
3 comments:
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