{"id":38261,"date":"2023-07-25T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38261"},"modified":"2023-07-25T16:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:52:29","slug":"doctors-are-treating-a-spike-of-patients-who-were-burned-by-falling-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/doctors-are-treating-a-spike-of-patients-who-were-burned-by-falling-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors are treating a spike of patients who were burned by falling on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It is so hot in Maricopa County, Arizona, that people are being brought into the emergency room with significant, sometimes life-threatening burns. For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSummers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of thing is going to happen. But this is really unusual \u2014 the number of patients that we\u2019re seeing and the severity of injuries \u2014 the acuity of injuries is much higher,\u201d said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.valleywisehealth.org\/post-authors\/kevin-foster-md-facs-2\/#:~:text=Kevin%20Foster%20is%20a%20physician,survival%20rate%20of%2097%20percent.\">Dr. Kevin Foster,<\/a>&nbsp;director of burn services at the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise Health. \u201cThe numbers are higher and the seriousness of injuries are higher, and we don\u2019t have a good explanation for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every single one of the 45 beds in the burn center is full, he said, and one-third of patients are people who fell and burned themselves on the ground. There are also burn patients in the ICU, and about half of those patients are people burned after falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt has definitely taken its toll,\u201d Foster said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The area has been hotter than usual, even for Arizona, and that, experts said, means that the ground can be dangerous for anyone whose bare skin comes into contact with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asphalt is dark and dense. While concrete is lighter and reflects some sunlight, when the sun shines on asphalt, its dark color causes it to absorb light and it heats up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is so hot in Maricopa County, Arizona, that people are being brought into the emergency room with significant, sometimes life-threatening burns. For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground. \u201cSummers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":38262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[288],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/az2.jpg?fit=786%2C408&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38278,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38261\/revisions\/38278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}