The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by burns:
Skin and subcutaneous (L00-L99).
- Hyper-/hypopigmentation
- Keloid (bulging scar)
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).
- Sepsis (blood poisoning; most common cause of death in burn victims).
- Wound infection, unspecified
Environmental pollution – intoxications (poisoning).
- Inhalation trauma – lung damage caused by smoke inhalation.
- High-voltage trauma – life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and kidney failure due to voltage.
- Burn disease – severe organ dysfunction occurring as a result of severe burns, such as renal dysfunction, pulmonary dysfunction, multi-organ failure (MODS, multi-organ dysfunction syndrome; MOF: multi-organ failure; simultaneous or sequential failure or severe functional impairment of various vital organ systems of the body), etc.
