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

🤔 Question: Is there any discussion about adding an etiology specific to smoking while on home oxygen? And/or adding use of home oxygen as a comorbidity?

🌱 Answer: This will be brought to the Data Definitions Workgroup for discussion.

Non-Burn Injury

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

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🌱 Answer: Frostbite is a Non-burn Injury listed under Cold Injury in the Data Dictionary. 

🤔 Question: What etiology should be used for patients with 3rd-degree injuries to the arm and abdomen from contact with a nitrogen oxide canister? How are cold burns captured?

🌱 Answer: The etiology would be a Non-Burn Injury/Cold Injury/subcategory: Cold Injury.