Catastrophic injuries are injuries that are life-changing, require significant medical treatment, and usually have a long-term or permanent effect on an injured person's life. Sometimes a person who has suffered a catastrophic injury can make a good recovery, but many are left with permanent disability, significant suffering, drastically reduced earning potential, and even shortened life spans.
Life-changing injuries can include traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, multiple fractures, internal injuries, severe burns, amputation, or blindness. Catastrophic injuries can happen as a result of car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, construction accidents, diving accidents, near-drowning, defective products, falls, fire, sports injuries, or assaults.
When you suffer a catastrophic injury because of someone else’s negligence, it is important to learn what your rights are and what legal remedies may be available to you. Contact the experienced Texas Personal Injury Attorneys at Ross Law Group, who know how to evaluate the legal liabilities of all of the parties involved and help you achieve the maximum recovery available from each liable party.
If you are the parent, spouse or family member of a person who has suffered a serious personal injury and can’t act for him or herself, you need to act quickly on their behalf. Valuable evidence can be lost or destroyed, or witnesses may forget important facts, if an investigation by your own counsel is delayed. Contact us for a consultation as soon as possible after a serious injury occurs.
Catastrophic injuries to children are some of the most complex, difficult, and emotional. The attorneys of Ross Law Group have a lot of experience representing the parents of children who have suffered serious injuries. Let us take care of your case while you take care of your child.
Few people anticipate that they may be victims of serious injuries and, therefore, do not make plans for what to do if it happens. In addition to the shock, pain, and physical disability that come with such an injury, there is also usually an immediate financial impact for the victim and his or her family. The assistance of an attorney experienced in handling the cases of catastrophic injury victims can help prevent the financial devastation from lasting a lifetime. Contact Ross Law Group to consult with an experienced Austin, Texas personal injury lawyer.
You might think that when a catastrophic injury happens, it would be a “no-brainer” for the liable parties or their insurance carriers to immediately pay the maximum amount available to settle the injured person’s case; however, that is not what usually happens. Even if what seems to be a substantial amount of money is offered, it’s important to have a thorough understanding of the facts and damages before accepting it. It is critical that you not release a party from liability too quickly.
There are many reasons to contact an Austin, Texas, personal injury attorney right away to represent you in a serious injury case.
- First, it is likely that immediately following the accident you will begin to receive calls and letters from the liable party’s insurance carrier asking for recorded statements, authorizations for the release of your medical information, and other information. What you do and say at this critical time could affect the strength of your case. It is always better to have the advice of an attorney from the beginning.
- Second, the process of dealing with the physical and emotional trauma of a catastrophic injury is intense. Our strategy from day one is to focus on your case, so you can focus on your recovery.
- Third, there are Statutes of Limitations that apply to personal injury cases. If you wait too long to take action, you will lose any right you may have to recover from liable parties.
The attorneys at Ross Law Group are here for you and if you are unable to visit one of our offices because of your injuries, we are happy to visit you in the hospital or at home. We are committed to providing excellent client service. Contact us today to make an appointment for a hospital or home visit.
Throughout the case, there are many things that we do for our clients.
Proving liability is often easier said than done. Investigating the circumstances under which the injury occurred and proving who was at fault is the most critical aspect of your personal injury case. When there is a fight over liability, you need an experienced personal injury lawyer on your side. Evaluation of police reports, witness statements, examination of the scene, the vehicles or products involved, and accident reconstruction are tools we can use to help prove your case.
It is important to consider the long term effects of catastrophic injuries when pursuing claims against the liable parties. The compensation you seek should include the cost of not only your past medical expenses, but also the cost of your future care, lifelong accommodations you may require, and loss of future earning capacity. Engaging medical, rehabilitation, life care planning and economic experts helps provide a way to prove your financial needs for the future.
Damages are the costs for treatment of injuries, lost wages and other economic losses, and the monetary value of intangible harm such as pain and suffering. Under some circumstances, an injured person may be able to recover punitive, or exemplary, damages, which are intended to punish malicious or reckless behavior and to deter such conduct in the future.
For every personal injury client, Ross Law Group provides a review of your earnings history for the past three years, with an emphasis on making sure that all wages due to you under the FLSA were paid. This provides essential information for proving your lost wages, and if we discover that you have been underpaid, we can assist you with a wage claim.
Economic Damages are those that can be measured in dollars, such as:
- Medical expenses in the past
- Medical Expenses that are probable in the future
- Related expenses such as caregiving, special equipment, and special housing
- Lost wages in the past
- Lost wages and/or Loss of Earning Capacity that are probable in the future
- Attorney Fees (under some circumstances)
- Property Damage
Non-Economic Damages are those values that are not so readily assessed in dollars, such as:
- Disfigurement in the past and in the future
- Physical Pain and Suffering in the past and in the future
- Mental anguish in the past and in the future
- Punitive or exemplary damages
Many people are not aware of all of the avenues of recovery that may be available to them after an accident. Ross Law Group’s experienced Austin Personal Injury Attorneys will fully investigate the accident to determine every party that may have liability, the insurance and assets of each liable party, and the insurance benefits you may be entitled to receive from your own insurance carrier. There may also be funds you can apply for through Victim Compensation programs. There may be avenues of recovery that you are unaware of or haven’t considered. Our goal is to make you aware of every type of compensation to which you may be entitled.
Another factor that is important in managing your legal case arising from an injury is the insurance that is involved. If your health insurance, or workers compensation insurance provided by your employer, has paid for medical treatment, the carrier usually has the right to demand reimbursement from your monetary recovery from the liable parties. If you have underinsured motorist coverage for protection in the event that the liable party’s insurance coverage is insufficient to compensate you for your damages, you may have to obtain the permission of your insurance carrier to settle with the liable party or lose your right to recover from your own insurance.
Medical providers may file liens for the costs incurred for medical care arising for treatment of the injury. An experienced personal injury attorney will help negotiate with the medical providers to try to reduce their charges and enable you to get the maximum benefit from your recovery.
Injured people often ask, “How much is the settlement in a catastrophic personal injury case?” Even the most experienced personal injury lawyer cannot give you an easy answer to that question. Many factors affect the settlement value of a personal injury case.
The practical answer is that your settlement in a personal injury case is dependant on the amount of money available from the party of parties who are liable for your injury and from your own insurance coverage. Within the total amounts that may exist from which to demand compensation, the settlement value of your case depends on your ability to prove liability, causation, and damages. Ross Law Group’s experienced personal injury attorneys have the knowledge and skill to investigate, prepare, present, negotiate, and try your case to try to obtain the maximum recovery you are entitled to receive. When Defendants know that you have an experienced attorney who is ready to take your case to trial, they are usually more open to serious negotiations. Contact us today for a free personal injury consultation.
If you are finding it emotionally difficult to adjust to your life after a catastrophic injury, please seek help. It is normal for you to find it difficult to adjust to the changes in your body and your life, and anger and depression are common reactions. Counseling, and perhaps medication for depression, can help. Tell your doctor how you are feeling.
Kinds of Catastrophic Injuries
Traumatic brain injuries can be classified as closed head injuries, which are due to a blow to the head or being struck by an object but in which the skull remains intact, or penetrating head injuries, in which an object fractures or penetrates the skull. Both closed and penetrating head injuries may be classified as diffuse, where there is damage to multiple microscopic areas of the brain, or focal, which is an injury limited to a specific part of the brain.
Diffuse Brain Injuries
Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)-This kind of brain injury causes large nerve fibers to tear and blood vessels to stretch in many areas of the brain. The brain can start hemorrhaging (bleeding) as well as create a buildup of toxic substances following the injury. Frontal and temporal lobes are very susceptible to DAI. If nerve centers are affected the patient can have weakness on a side of the body, memory and visual loss, become disorganized, and lose focus.
Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury (HII)-This kind of brain injury causes the brain to swell, restricting the blood flow, oxygen, and other nutrients to the brain. Typical side effects of diffuse injuries are memory loss and decreased cognitive function.
Focal Brain Injuries
Contusions, or bruising, may cause bleeding, swelling, and destruction of brain tissue. Contusions can occur in the frontal and temporal lobes, or the parietal and occipital lobes.
As a result of a contusion a patient may experience symptoms like changes in behavior, unusual sensations, loss of vision, loss of coordination, weakness and memory loss. After the swelling decreases contusions become smaller, but there may be some scar tissue and neurological impairment.
Hemorrhage- When blood leaks from a damaged vessel into brain tissue hemorrhaging occurs. Hemorrhage may occur instantly or days after the injury and can cause various symptoms depending on the size and location of the damage.
Strokes, or infarctions, occur when an artery to the brain is compressed by the swelling of nearby tissues. The swelling prevents blood flow and oxygen from getting to the brain cells. Usually, strokes affect the occipital and temporal lobes, causing a loss of vision or speech and language problems.
Hematoma- occurs when there is bleeding on the outside of the brain.
Subdural hematomas- slow bleeding outside the brain. This is caused by damage to a blood vessel carrying deoxygenated blood. They may develop slowly. If they are large enough, they can exert pressure on the brain, and it is critical to have surgery to drain the blood and relieve the pressure.
Epidural hematoma- occurs outside the brain and is caused by a leaking artery. A large EDH can cause pressure to build up, because arteries carry blood under pressure. An EDH needs immediate surgery to relieve pressure and prevent death or permanent neurological damage.
Subarachnoid Hematoma-This injury happens when a small amount of bleeding spreads over the surface of the brain. This small amount of bleeding is usually not very harmful and will probably not cause any damage.
About Your Brain
Brain Stem - This area controls the body’s heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing and is where the brain connects to the spinal cord. Damage to the brainstem can result in death.
Cerebellum - This is the area at the back of the brain and coordinates balance and muscle coordination. Damage to this area can affect the injured person’s ability to eat, walk, talk, and perform other functions.
Frontal Lobe - This is the area in the front of the brain. The frontal lobe regulates behavior and emotion, the "higher functions" of the brain. Damage to this lobe can result in personality changes and difficulty in planning, organizing, and problem solving.
Occipital Lobe – This is the area in the back of the brain and processes visual information. Damage to this lobe can cause visual defects, including the ability to recognize shapes and colors.
Parietal Lobes - The parietal lobes, divided into right and left sides, are located behind the frontal lobe at the top of the brain. If the right parietal lobe is damaged, difficulty navigating can occur, since this lobe is responsible for how the patient perceives their environment. The left parietal lobe is responsible for speech, and damage to this area can hinder the patient’s ability to understand language, both written and spoken. The parietal lobes contain the primary sensory cortex that controls sensation of touch and pressure. Fine sensation is affected if the patient has trouble judging sizes, weights, or shapes.
Temporal Lobes - Two temporal lobes, located on each side of the brain at ear level, allow the patient to distinguish between sounds and scents. They are also believed to control short-term memory. The right lobe is responsible for visual memory, while the left is responsible for memory of words and names.
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
SCI’s can be divided into two main categories, complete and incomplete injuries. It is rare that a patient’s spinal cord is cut and severed. Complete SCI is caused by bruising, pressure on the spinal cord, and loss of blood to the cord. The damage is entire loss of movement and sensation below the level of the injury.
Incomplete SCI does not result in complete loss of movement and sensation, but the injured person may have varying degrees of both. There are several subtypes of incomplete SCI:
Anterior Cord Syndrome- This happens when the injury occurs in the anterior, or front, of the spinal cord and affects the motor and sensory pathways in the affected area. Patients suffer loss of movement and sensation, although some sensations may still be felt that travel through still-intact pathways.
Central Cord Syndrome-This happens when the injury occurs in the center of the cervical (uppermost) area of the spinal cord and causes an interruption in the brain and spinal cord’s ability to communicate to control movement. Patients experience weakness or paralysis in their arms and some loss of sensory reception. Legs are generally much less affected than the arms. Spontaneous recovery is possible. People often improve in the first 6 weeks after injury.
Brown-Sequard Syndrome-In this kind of SCI, injury can occur on either side of the spinal cord, resulting in loss of sensation on the side of the body below the level of the injury. Patients lose temperature and pain sensation on the opposite side of the injury due to the crossing of these pathways in the spinal cord.
Injuries to Nerve Cells-This kind of SCI results in the loss of sensory and motor function only to that area of the body that is affected by the injured nerve root. Symptoms vary among patients, depending on which nerve root is affected and where it is located.
Spinal Contusions-Contusions are the most common type of SCI. In this kind of injury the cord is bruised and, as a consequence, there is inflammation and bleeding from blood vessels near the injury. This type of injury results in temporary debilitation of the spinal cord, usually lasting 1 to 2 days. The injury may be complete or incomplete.
Traumatic Amputation
Traumatic Amputations may happen when an extremity is severed, crushed, or injured beyond repair. Amputation may be open or closed. In an open-flap amputation, the skin is held back from the incision site, sometimes for several days. This is so the tissue can be monitored closely. This procedure is done when there is concern about infection and may be referred to as delayed closure.
In a closed amputation, the skin flaps are sewn shut immediately during the surgery. Surgeons will choose immediate closure if they are certain that there is a small risk of infection.
Partial amputation- some structure, such as a muscle, ligament, or tendon is still intact between the body and the amputated part.
Complete amputation- there are no anatomical structures attaching the amputated part to the body.
Proximal amputation- involves a body part that is closely adhered to the body’s core (i.e. an arm at the shoulder joint)
Distal amputation- involves an amputated part that is away from the body’s core (i.e. a finger or toe).
BKA- below-the-knee amputation
AKA- above-the-knee amputation
Some of the potential health issues that may affect amputation patients and some preventive measures which can be taken to avoid them are:
Phantom limb pain is discomfort felt by the amputee arising from the amputated limb. It may be described as pain, a burning or itching sensation, or other unpleasant sensation. The pain is very real, and can be debilitating for some patients. There is research that has found that adequately treating pain in the postoperative period can reduce the risk of phantom pain. When phantom pain does occur, pain medications and medications for the treatment of nerve pain may be used. Other methods that may be helpful include hypnotherapy, biofeedback, and other therapies designed to alter the patient’s perception of the pain.
Contractures, or shortening of the muscles, may occur after prolonged bed rest or prolonged sitting. Contractures are one of the reasons that rehabilitation starts so soon after surgery, sometimes within 48 hours depending on the patient. Contractures are important to avoid because they make fitting aprosthesis more difficult.
Death of the Skin Flaps. Tissue necrosis, or death of the tissue that make up the skin flaps, can sometimes occur if circulation to the skin is inadequate. This may necessitate repeat surgery. To help avoid this complication, the patient can begin gently mobilizing the stump immediately after surgery to promote circulation to the area.
Wound opening can happen because of an infection, excess swelling in the stump, or too much tension on the sutures used to close the wound. Use of elastic garments (bandages), stump socks, and shrinkers may aid in protecting the stump from this complication. Antibiotics are given in the postoperative period to decrease the risk of infection.
Failure to Heal. Sometimes, stumps may not heal properly. This may happen because of poor physical health of the patient, such as diabetes, or to poor nutritional status. It may be a sign of infection in the stump. It may be due to poor circulation to the area. This complication may require further surgery.
Infection in the stump must be regarded seriously. Infection will impede wound healing. Antibiotics are often started before the amputation and continued for a period of time after the surgery. Signs of infection may include fever, drainage, and a foul wound odor.
Depression may start immediately after surgery or later, after the patient has gone home. Patients should be encouraged to talk about their feelings with a professional. Physicians should be vigilant for signs and symptoms of depression and question the patient who appears depressed. Depression is very common but should never be minimized.
Weight Gain. Many amputees gain weight after amputation due to a more sedentary lifestyle. Patients who are depressed may gain weight if eating is a comfort. Amputees may not feel comfortable exercising in public. Weight gain can be a problem if it hinders mobilization.
Prosthetic Complications. Poorly fitting prosthetics can cause redness, skin breakdown, bruising, or blister formation on the stump. It is important that an amputee regularly examine his or her stump for any signs of irritation. You should also have your prosthesis evaluated by a professional every 6 months to a year, or as recommended by your doctor.
Burn Injuries
Most burn injuries happen as a result of accidents or violence. Most Austinites are familiar with the story of Jacqueline Saburido, a college student who was horrifically burned in 1999 when the car she was in was hit by a drunk driver. Fortunately, few people suffer burns as serious as hers; however, burn injuries can be life-threatening and life-changing.
Burns used to be classified as first, second, third degree and so on, but the names given to burn injuries of various depths have changed in recent decades.
Superficial burns are those that cause injury to the top layer of skin (the epidermis.
Partial Thickness or Dermal Injury burns are those that cause injury to the second layer of skin (the dermis). The dermis is 15 – 40 times thicker than the epidermis. As a result, the seriousness of a partial thickness (or dermal) burn depends on how much of the dermis has been injured. A deep and large partial thickness burn will usually be treated with skin grafting. Partial thickness burns usually leave scars.
Full thickness Injury is a burn that extends down to the third layer (the subcutaneous tissue, which includes fat). A full thickness burn destroys all three layers of skin, resulting in the loss of not only the skin but also the hair follicles, sweat glands, and the region where new skin cells are formed. For these reasons, full thickness burns require skin grafts.
Full thickness burns with injury to the underlying muscle damage muscles underneath the subcutaneous skin layer.
Different systems have been developed to estimate the percentage of total skin (total body surface area (TBSA)) that has been burned. One of the older systems is known as the Rule of Nines, which is based on the rough approximation that each arm has 9% of the body’s total skin, the head 9%, each leg 18% (two 9’s), the front of the torso 18%, the back of the torso 18%, and the neck 1%.
When partial thickness or full thickness burns exceed thirty percent of an adult’s total body surface area, it is usually necessary to perform grafts in stages because the patient does not have enough healthy skin to graft the burned area in a single operation.
Inhalation Injuries
The smoke from fire contains more than a hundred toxic substances. Three types of inhalation injuries that can occur from fire include:
Lung Burn, or Thermal Injury is damage from heat inhalation. Directly breathing in a hot air/flame source can cause heat inhalation injuries. Usually, thermal injuries first occur in the upper airways (trachea, esophagus, mucous membranes).
Damage from Systemic Toxins. Systemic toxins affect the body's intake of oxygen. In most cases, when someone breathes in smoke they may be found unconscious or disoriented. Toxic poisoning can cause brain damage and can even result in death. Carbon monoxide is an example of a common systemic toxin.
Damage from Smoke Inhalation, or Smoke Intoxication is often overlooked because of other more visible injuries, like burns. 60 - 80% of fatalities that result from burn injuries can be attributed to major smoke inhalation. Smoke inhalation injuries usually appear within 2-48 hours of a burn injury. Some indicators that a person has experienced smoke intoxication include:
- Fainting
- Respiratory distress or upper airway blockage
- Soot around the nose or mouth
- Singed nose hairs, eyebrows and/or eyelashes
- Burns on or around the face and neck
Burn Treatments
The skin is the body’s largest organ (averaging more than two square yards in adults) and performs many vital functions, including protecting the body from invasion by bacteria and viruses. Burned skin not only loses its ability to protect against invaders, it becomes a breeding ground for bacteria. Because infections slow healing and increase scarring, preventing and treating infections is one of the most important tasks of a hospital burn unit.
Bandages protect against infection, reduce heat and water vapor loss from burned skin, keep the patient more comfortable because the injured area is sensitive, help keep limbs, fingers and toes in a proper position for healing, and collect drainage from the wounds.
A person with a serious burn injury goes into shock, which causes swelling. Badly burned skin becomes stiff and resists swelling, leading to increased pressure inside limbs, fingers or toes that can choke off blood flow. Keeping an injured limb raised reduces the pressure inside the limb by draining out fluid. Surgical cuts (called escharectomies) in the burned skin can also allow the burned area to expand and decrease the pressure buildup in the injured area.
As injured skin heals, the skin around the wound contracts (shrinks) toward the center of the wound as scar tissue forms in the wounded area. If joints in the area of injury are not regularly exercised, the scarred skin may become so tight that the joint cannot move normally. This is known as a contracture. Contractures often have to be treated (released) surgically. Consequently, even though exercising burned limbs can be painful, it increases flexibility and reduces long term complications. Rehabilitation that is begun early and continues late in the healing process ensures the greatest flexibility.
Some scars grow beyond or above the area of the wounded skin (known as hypertrophic scarring). While the reasons this occurs are not fully understood, keeping pressure on the scar as it forms helps reduce the amount of hypertrophic scarring. After scar tissue begins to form, pressure garments that put pressure on the scar are often used.
Skin grafts are used in treating partial thickness and full thickness burns. Early surgical removal (excision or debridement) of burned skin followed by skin grafting reduces the number of days in the hospital and usually improves the function and appearance of the burned area, especially when the face, hands, or feet are involved. However, if the patient’s life is in danger skin grafting is usually postponed. The best skin grafts come from the patient’s own unburned skin (donor sites). The grafts (called autografts) will ideally come from locations that are not ordinarily visible, such as the buttocks or upper thighs, because the donor sites will not be normal in appearance after they heal. However, the size of grafts that are needed and the location of burns will also determine where the grafts are taken from.
The patient’s donor sites can often be used more than once for grafts after a new layer of skin forms on the donor site, although there is a limit to how many grafts can be taken from the same site. Grafts from skin banks and other living and synthetic grafts are also available. Skin banks are similar to blood banks. They test for communicable diseases and store skin from individuals who agreed to be organ donors before dying. The donor skin (called an allograft) is preserved in a solution or frozen. Grafts from skin banks are used as a temporary covering to protect against infection, reduce pain, reduce fluid loss, and allow the tissues underneath to heal. However, because the body’s immune system recognizes an allograft as being foreign, it rejects the graft in 1 to 3 weeks. It is then removed.
Biotechnology has recently produced new types of skin grafts. CEA (cultured epithelial autograft) uses living skin cells from the burn patient to grow new skin cells in sheets in a laboratory. Because the skin cells come from the patient, they are not rejected and form a permanent new skin layer. The sheets of CEA are very thin (10 – 15 cells thick) and fragile; they have the strength when first applied of wet tissue paper and are easily torn. In patients with massive burns, CEA produces a better cosmetic result than if it weren’t used, but CEA patients often require longer hospitalizations and more surgeries to release contractures because of the need to reduce movement to avoid damaging the delicate grafts until they are established. Products like Integra use products from animals, including collagen and condroitin, in combination with silicone to form a synthetic skin substitute as a temporary covering for massive burns
Long-Term Treatment and Care Issues for Burn Survivors
The length of hospitalization depends on many factors. In addition to the severity of the burn injury, these factors include whether the person suffered lung injury from inhaling smoke or chemicals and whether the person had pre-existing medical problems, such as heart disease.
There are three phases in the formation of a scar. In the first phase, which lasts less than a week, the body begins to remove dead and dying skin tissue, fights infection, and sends cells that will begin the healing process to the burned areas. In the second phase, which takes a few weeks, the body makes collagen fibers to form scar tissue and creates tiny new blood vessels in the injured area. In the final phase, which takes months to years, the scar tissue matures, resulting in a stronger scar. Early surgical removal of dead skin and replacement with skin grafts usually accelerates healing.
With a deep partial thickness or full thickness burn, sweat glands are destroyed and are not replaced when the skin heals. Because sweating is important in controlling body temperature, burn survivors often have difficulty in hot and humid conditions. They may need to avoid certain forms of exercise, recreation, or working conditions that could cause heat stroke.
Glands in the skin (sebaceous glands) produce oil that lubricates and moistens skin. Deep burns destroy the sebaceous glands, making it necessary to use lotions to prevent the skin from becoming too dry.
Skin color is created by cells in the epidermis called melanocytes. Melanocytes produce melanin, the pigment responsible for skin color. Melanocytes are destroyed by deep burns. Different areas of the body may have different numbers of melanocytes (for example, areas with frequent sun exposure tend to have more melanocytes). It may be necessary to use skin from a donor site that is not a good color match for the graft site. For example, the best color match for skin in the face and neck is skin on the chest above the nipple line. However, if that area is burned other donor sites must be used. Scars usually change color over time, becoming less red.
Healed scars are about 20% weaker than the skin they replace. And while burned skin is in the process of healing, it is particularly fragile and prone to blistering. Clothes that fit well are important to prevent skin breakdown. The healed skin is also more vulnerable to sunburns than regular skin and may be more allergic to sunscreens and other skin products.
The amount of sensation following a burn depends on the depth of the burn. For a superficial burn, sensation should be normal after healing. For deeper burns, there is often a decreased sensation of hot/cold, sharp/dull, and light touch. The sense of deep touch is usually preserved. Many individuals are more sensitive to the air temperature than before being burned, with a majority of these individuals being more sensitive to colder air temperatures than is normal.
The extreme pain that people experience with a recent serious burn improves as the wound heals. Burn patients can experience a feeling of skin tightness, numbness, or a tingling or burning sensation as the skin heals. Because the healed skin tends to be drier than normal skin, it may itch if not kept moist.
In dermabrasion the surgeon scrapes away the outermost layer of skin with a rough wire brush or a burr containing diamond particles attached to a motorized handle. In dermaplaning the surgeon uses a dermatome, the same type of instrument used by burn surgeons to obtain skin for grafting.
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