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🌱 Answer: The burn surgeon should determine the most likely cause of the injury (burn or non-burn) and then the specific cause if known. If the surgeon thinks it was, for example, a friction/shearing injury but does not sure specifically what type you can enter Friction/Shearing: Other or if it looks like a Traumatic Injury select a cause or Other.

🤔 Question: Contact with hot candy or caramel is a burn caused by contact with hot food, however, food is not an option when selecting the etiology category within “contact burn”. What should be selected?

🌱 Answer: Hot candy or caramel should be classified as a “scald” from “hot food”, not a “contact burn”.

Non-Burn Injury

🤔 Question: Are Road Rash Injuries being reinstated as burn injuries?

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