Erin Allman-Updike

So that's mostly burns and kind of how severe they can be, what damage they can cause.

There's obviously a lot of complications that can arise during the treatment of these burns.

You're at very high risk of infection because your skin is the main barrier from infection.

And depending on what caused the burn, you might have additional like inhalational injuries.

And smoke inhalation deserves its whole own episode because that can cause a really severe injury.

It deserves its whole entire own episode.

But that's kind of like the main.

how we deal with burns in terms of how our body is responding to that burn and the management is going to really vary depending on what you have access to and depending on how severe that burn is but erin i have to assume that we've been subject to vulnerable to burns ever since i don't know forever since we lost our fur like furry animals can still burn what tell me yeah

I will get there.

I do have one other question for you, though.

And that's just sort of like, in general, you know, so much of what I encountered in the history of burns is that burns could be very, very fatal.

And they're not as much now today if you have access to all these top of the line treatments and burn centers.

But what is behind or driving that mortality rate?

It really depends.

It depends on the total body surface area.

There's actually like a calculator that you can use based on someone's age and their body surface area to like predict essentially whether someone is likely to die from it.

In the case of severe burns, then it's that first like 24, 48 hours that you really need access to resuscitation or somebody could die from shock and organ failure.

Okay.

And then after that, it's more likely to be infection or potentially other complications, like if there was an inhalation injury or something like that at the same time.

Gotcha.