In the burn unit, doctors gave men painkillers, cleaned the burns, treated them with topical antibiotics, and gave them an antibacterial foam dressing. On a follow-up appointment, the wound appeared to be healing without any complications.
The man recovered from his injuries, but the author of the University of Washington emergency medicine and global environmental health case study author Jeremy Hess banned the risk of such injuries only increased as climate change continues.
“Extreme thermal events increase the risk of contact burns from hot surfaces of the environment,” he writes. “Infant children, elderly people, barren people, and people with substance use disorders are at a higher risk of these types of burns.”
Last year, the New York Times reported it Southwest burn centres are already beginning to see many burns From the contact between the sidewalk and asphalt during heat waves. In some cases, burns can be fatal if people lose consciousness on high temperature surfaces, such as overdose, fever strokes, addiction, or other health conditions. “Your body literally sits there and cooks,” Stanford University surgeon and burn prevention researcher Clifford Shecker told The Times last year. “When someone finally finds you, you’re already in multisystem organ failure.”
