Our Burn Injury Lawyers in Los Angeles Are Here to Help You
If you or someone you care about got hurt with a burn injury, our team at Trauma Law sends heartfelt wishes for a fast and complete recovery. Should that injury be partly because someone else was careless, or if an insurance company is resisting giving you fair payment for your injuries, our skilled injury lawyers are ready to step in. We’ll fight for your rights to ensure you get the financial help and healthcare you need to get back on your feet.
Different Burn Degrees in Burn Injuries
Doctors categorize burns by their seriousness, meaning how deep they go into the skin.
First-degree burns: Simple burns that only affect the skin’s top layer are called first-degree burns. Your skin might turn red, feel sore when touched, and look dry, but there won’t be any blisters or lasting marks.
Second-degree burns: When the burn goes deeper and reaches the second layer of skin, we call these second-degree burns. These burns hurt a lot and can cause blisters, marks that may stick around, and swelling.
Third-degree burns: These are the worst kind of burns you can get. They destroy the top and second skin layers and can even damage the deepest skin layer. Such burns might go as deep as the muscle, fat, or even bones underneath. They might not hurt because they can make nerves that feel pain stop working despite how bad they are.
Kinds of Burns in California
Burns can be sorted by what caused them. If a burn comes from a chemical, it needs different care than a burn from flames.
Thermal burn – arises when someone touches fire or a scorching item. We can further classify this type of burn into different subcategories:
● Steam Burns – As you might guess, Steam burns are burns from hot mist. These kinds of burns can hurt more than burns from hot water because when steam touches your skin, it becomes water again. This change needs heat, which makes the steam even hotter. That’s why a steam burn can be worse than a burn from boiling water, which doesn’t get hotter or change when it touches your skin.
● Flame Burns – Getting a burn from touching fire directly is called a flame burn.
● Contact Burns – When someone gets burned by touching something scorching, like a pot or iron, while doing things around the house, it’s a contact burn.
● Explosion Burns – If someone is burned in a big explosion, it can be severe and cause major injuries, like losing a limb or even death.
Chemical Burns – If someone touches a strong chemical, like chlorine, acid, or bleach, they can get a chemical burn. These burns happen to people with jobs in big factories or places where they use these chemicals. To help someone who got a chemical burn, it’s essential to know precisely what chemicals hurt them.
Electrical Burns – Electrical burns may happen in two ways. First, if a person’s skin gets scorched by a hot wire – that’s like getting burned by anything too hot to touch. Second, it’s like getting a shock that hurts your body from the inside, which we call electrocution. This kind of shock can harm someone, and the damage can last very long. Even if the electricity travels through someone and they still look okay, they could be hurt very severely where we can’t see, like in their belly or the muscles they use to move. That’s why it’s super important to get to a doctor fast, even if they don’t look hurt, because the inside parts could be in big trouble.
Ways To Treat Burn Injuries
First-degree burns can often be managed safely in your own house. But, if you’re unsure if it’s a mild first-degree or a more serious second-degree burn, you should immediately get medical help.
Severe burn injuries need continuous care from doctors, best at a center that focuses on burns. This is important for some patients:
● Individuals with existing health issues like diabetes or hypertension
● Elderly and young kids
● Injuries from touching chemicals
● Burns on the hands, face, feet, or private areas
● Those who have endured burns on more than 10% of their body
We have a few main goals when helping someone with second and third-degree burns. The first goal is to lessen the pain. Next, we try to prevent any infections. We also need to clean away any dead skin. The last goal is to help the burned area feel and work as it did before. Sometimes, for terrible burns, doctors need to do a special treatment where they put new skin, called a skin graft. If the burn has changed how the person looks, an operation to fix it, known as plastic surgery, can help. This surgery isn’t just to make them look better. It can also make it easier to move parts of the body with a lot of scar tissue.
Caring for people with severe burns isn’t just about their physical hurts. Getting badly burned is an extremely tough thing to go through. Many folks who get burned feel scared, have bad dreams, and feel down or worried. Talking with others who understand and getting advice from someone who knows about feelings can help them feel better.
Getting Paid for Burn-Related Injuries in California
If you or someone you care about got hurt with burns, it’s your right to go after the person or company responsible and ask for compensation and justice.
At first glance, the insurance firm might offer a big sum. Yet, if healing takes more time or issues pop up, that cash might not last. Certain costs must be considered when figuring out the true and proper pay for someone hurt by burns. Some expenses are simple to total with a math tool, but others are difficult to measure such as:
● Previous medical expenses and hospital fees from the accident
● Continuous health treatments like operations and physical therapy
● Expenses for emotional well-being support, such as therapy with a counselor
● In extreme cases, the need for ongoing personal care
● Income lost and future earnings missed from not being able to work, either for a while or forever
● Items lost in events like fires or blasts
● The physical pain and trouble the victim has endured
● The deep emotional stress felt by the victim
Medical science keeps improving at helping people with bad burns, but these new ways to help can cost a lot. If you get enough money from a settlement, you or someone you care about can look into different ways to get better without stressing how much it will cost.
Contact a California Burn Injury Attorney for Assistance
Suffering from a burn can be extremely painful and upsetting. You shouldn’t have to talk to insurance companies or big businesses alone during this challenging time. The lawyers at Trauma Law have successfully assisted others hurt in burn incidents to receive fair payment, and we’re ready to help you, too. We’ll take care of your legal claim fairly and kindly so you can focus on improving. Don’t hesitate to call us today at 559-490-1226 for a no-cost talk.
