ABSTRACT
The heat source may be dry or wet; where the heat is dry, the resultant injury is called a ‘burn’, whereas with moist heat from hot water, steam and other hot liquids it is generally known as ‘scalding’. Certain settings, such as war zones or terrorist attacks result in particular types of thermal
injury, from improvised explosive devices, which may be associated with all other features of blast injury, posing particular management problems.
