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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”.

🤔 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.

🤔 Question: A person was using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream and it got on their hand, would this be considered a cold injury or a chemical burn?

🌱 Answer: This should be considered a cold injury. A liquid nitrogen burn, also known as a cryogenic burn, is a skin injury caused by exposure to extreme cold. The liquid inside skin cells freezes when exposed to liquid nitrogen, damaging the cells and making it difficult for them to return to normal.

Non-Burn Injury

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

🌱 Answer: No, Road Rash Injuries are considered Friction/Shearing Injuries and are categorized as Non-Burn Injuries.

🤔 Question: Should patients be tracked who have partial amputations as a non-burn etiology injury? Is this for any and all partial amputations under traumatic circumstances (i.e. table saw, chainsaw, lawn mowers)? What about patients the burn/plastic surgery does not consult on.

🌱 Answer: Only enter patients in the Registry that are cared for by your burn service. This means the burn service is caring for the patient, not just consulting on these patients.

🤔 Question: A patient had a leg cellulitis and subsequently had a fasciotomy and skin graft placement by the burn surgeon.  Would this be entered as a non-burn injury, rash, skin infection; other?

🌱 Answer: Yes, enter a cellulitis as a non-burn injury/Rash or Skin infection/Other and when you select Other a pop-up window will open so you can specify cellulitis.

🤔 Question: What type of non-burn injury would a frostbite patient be recorded?   , rash, skin infection; other?

🌱 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.