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Complications associated with extensive burn injuries to skin include:

True / False

Acute renal failure Correct

Myoglobinuria Correct

Peptic ulceration Correct

Methaemoglobinaemia Correct

Haemoglobinuria Correct

Explanation

A full thickness burn (or third degree burn) can result in haemoglobinuria and myoglobinuria, and are commonly encountered following a high-voltage electrical injury.

In the presence of haemoglobinuria and myoglobinuria the patient may subsequently develop acute renal failure (ARF), and the use of diuretics (for example, mannitol 0.5 g/kg) may help. The development of ARF in a burned patient is associated with a high mortality.

Additional complications of thermal injury include:

peptic ulceration (Curling's ulcer)

congestive cardiac failure

myocardial infarction

pulmonary embolism

encephalopathy, and

hypertension.

Methaemoglobinaemia is not directly associated burns injury to skin. Inhalational of smoke containing carbon monoxide and cyanide can lead to anaemic or histotoxic hypoxia.

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