{"id":1335,"date":"2018-05-15T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2018-06-03T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T12:38:39","slug":"burn-injury-study-shows-dramatic-increase-in-burn-injury-survivals-over-past-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/burn-injury-study-shows-dramatic-increase-in-burn-injury-survivals-over-past-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn Injury Study Shows Dramatic Increase In Burn Injury Survivals Over Past 30 Years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 9 of this year, the\u00a0Journal of the American College of Surgeons published a study that was conducted over a period of nearly thirty years involving burn injury victims being admitted into hospitals. <strong>This study showed a dramatic rise in the rate at which burn victims have survived their injuries.<\/strong> It took into consideration a wide range of variables in these instances of <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\">personal injury<\/a>, including a burn victim\u2019s age, how much of their body was burned, and how long each victim was hospitalized, in addition to other variables such as if there were any injuries from smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/prXQ7UGcKiI\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of this study, there were believed to have been 10,384 new burn admissions, with only a small percentage ending up being fatal. Of those who didn\u2019t survive their burn injuries, the average age of a victim was only 13 years-old. <strong>The average percent of total body surface area burned for those who didn\u2019t survive was 11%.<\/strong>\u00a0 Each year of the study showed a continuous decrease in the mortality rate of burn injury victims from the previous year. On average, there was about a 2% decrease per decade.<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one have suffered burn injuries due to someone else\u2019s negligence, you may be entitled to pecuniary damages amounting to your pain and suffering, lost wages and medical expenses.\u00a0<strong>To discuss your potential\u00a0burn injury claim with an expert\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-burn-injury-accident-lawyers-attorneys.php\">burn injury attorney<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/\">personal injury lawyer<\/a> specialist,\u00a0please contact our\u00a0Boston, Massachusetts\u00a0law firm, 24\/7, by phone at 617-787-3700 or email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-contact-gilbert-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\">info@gilhoylaw.com<\/a>\u00a0for your free and confidential consultation.<\/strong>\u00a0 Your needs are our top priority!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 9 of this year, the\u00a0Journal of the American College of Surgeons published a study that was conducted over a period of nearly thirty years involving burn injury victims being admitted into hospitals. This study showed a dramatic rise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/burn-injury-study-shows-dramatic-increase-in-burn-injury-survivals-over-past-30-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13,8,16,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}