Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Burn Pain

Attorney David Szerlag recently recovered 2.4 million dollars in a boiler explosion case. Attorney Fred Pritzker recently recovered 2.9 million dollars in an apartment fire case. To contact an attorney at the firm about compensation for burn pain, medical expenses and other damages, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or sumbit our free case review form.

Phases of Burn Pain

Pain is one of the biggest problems burn victims face, both physically and mentally.  The pain from the burn injury varies based on the phase of the burn injury.  The phases are:

  • Emergency Phase
  • Acute phase
  • Recovery Phase

The first phase is the emergency phase, beginning from the time of the burn up to several days after the burn.  During this period, pain is very intense.  Pain during the emergency phase is also caused by procedures necessary to keep the patient alive.  Procedures such as treating and dressing the wound, inserting a catheter, intubation and bronchoscopy are extremely painful. 

The second phase is known as the acute phase, lasting from days to months depending on the severity of the burn.  During this stage, treatment and dressing of the wound continues.  But other procedures may be needed to aid in the recovery process.  The wound must be debrided (dead tissue removed), either with enzymes, mechanical means, surgically, with hydrotherapy, or some combination.  Because debridement must reach a layer of healthy blood vessels, it is painful.  Other treatment procedures include surgical intervention, physical therapy, and dressing changes.  Also, skin grafting may be necessary in this time, which is painful.  After the skin transplant, the donor area can cause pain. 

Treatment procedures can be excruciatingly painful.  The procedures have even been described as “hell”, even after analgesics (pain medicine) have been given. 

The third phase is the recovery phase and begins once the burn wound is covered or healed.  This phase mainly involves tissue growth which can cause pain, itching, numbness, or tingling.  In some burn victims where nerve tissue is damage there might be longer lasting chronic pain. 

Anxiety and Burn Pain

The repetition of painful procedures several times a day typically leads patients to have some anxiety relative to the procedures; the anxiety increases over time as procedures continue.  Anxiety over painful procedures can be especially sever in younger children.  The bad thing about this anxiety is that anxiety can actually increase one’s attention and feeling of pain.  This increased awareness of pain can in turn cause even greater anxiety over the procedures, which can lead to even worse pain being felt.  Because of this, it is necessary for burn victims that receive regular, daily painful procedures to receive anti-anxiety medication.

Burn Victim Compensation
Pain and Suffering

Our attorneys have experience obtaining compensation for burn victims for pain and suffering. In a burn injury lawsuit "pain and suffering" would include any pain, disability, disfigurement, embarrassment, or emotional distress that the burn victim has experienced up to the time of your verdict or will experience in the future.

The following factors are considered when determining the amount of compensation the burn victim should receive:

  1. The type, extent, and severity of your burn injuries;
  2. How painful your burn injuries were, are and will be;
  3. Your burn treatments and the pain involved in those treatments (we know the pain is incomprehensible);
  4. The fact that you will never totally recover from your burn injuries because there will be permanent disfigurement;
  5. The extent of your permanent disfigurement;
  6. The extent of your permanent disability (burn victims usually have some permanent disability);
  7. Your emotional distess.

To contact an attorney at Pritzker Olsen law firm about a lawsuit to recover money for your burn pain, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our free case consultation form.

Sources:
1. Andreasen NJC, Noyes R, Hartford CE et al:  Management of the emotional reactions in seriously burned adults, New England Journal of Medicine 286:65-69, 1972.
2. Carrougher, Gretchern J. (1998).  Burn Care and Therapy.  St. Louis:  Mosby Inc.
3. Tsirigotou S:  Acute and chronic pain resulting from burn injuries, Ann Medit Burns Club 6(1), 1993. 

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