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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.

🤔 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?

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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.