/ was she a Nazi ?

wait, is oxygen flammable or inflammable?

They're just not widely reported!!

/yes!

So the sad tag is weeping in the corner while the scary tag hides under the bed? Seriously, this is horrible for that woman and her family. Our identities are so tied to our faces (and our voices), I couldn't deal if my face got destroyed.

My father had surgery on Monday and was amazed that they needed someone with a pseudo-vacuum to suck the smoke out of the air from his burning flesh (apparently its carcinogenic). I was also ignorant of this.

Womans face catches fire


She sounds hot.

Electrosurgical plume (that's its technical name) can contain intact strands of DNA. That's a huge risk to surgical personnel if they breathe it in; it can make you sick in a variety of ways.

Woman's face catches fire. At first I assumed it was an iPhone 4S accident.

FTFA: but something went bad wrong

I have only heard bad wrong one other place: stormy in sealab 2021. People actually say that? Is there a good wrong?

Seems like an a-typical usage for the Florida tag. I guess sad and scary where out grabbing some lunch?

The linked articles at the bottom suffer the most unfortunate placement of a line break ever:

Young Girls Getting Facials,
Blowouts, Manicures

Subby: You have me on tenterhooks. Where is the rest of your headline, as implied by the terminating comma?

I've read accounts like this and it seems that doctors overuse O2 masks. A breathing mask with simple positive air pressure can do the job and not get all explodey.

The idea of using an oxygen mask while removing facial cysts seems like someone wanted to add unneeded codes to the insurance company bill. Golf clubs anyone?

Was the burn in the shape of a hand?

Kumar wanted for questioning.

Englebert Slaptyback: Womans face catches fire


She sounds hot.

Quick and dirty. Well done sir.

FTA: "The cause of the fire is still under investigation. But surgical fires are usually sparked by heat, often from tools like lasers, and then fueled by alcohol..."

Alcohol was involved"

I knew it.

Contents Under Pressure: I've read accounts like this and it seems that doctors overuse O2 masks. A breathing mask with simple positive air pressure can do the job and not get all explodey.

The idea of using an oxygen mask while removing facial cysts seems like someone wanted to add unneeded codes to the insurance company bill. Golf clubs anyone?

You sound like you work for Kaiser.

Walker: Well I should hope so. A hospital staff that let a woman's face remain on fire during the 15 minutes it took you to get there wouldn't be a very competent hospital staff.

Pretty much what I was gonna post. Even if they had a truly amazing response time of 5 minutes, imagine the damage a fire ON YOUR FACE could do in 5 minutes.

Wow. I submitted this story yesterday and it didn't get greenlit.

"A flash fire is basically a fire that flashes up and then goes out,"
"But surgical fires are usually sparked by heat..."

Ric Romero nods his approval.

scary. Burned her apostrophe right off.

Florida! Wow....just wow!

Headso: wait, is oxygen flammable or inflammable?

Neither, it's an oxidizer.

/not explosive either

It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.

He thought that only happened at the dentist's. (new window)

Someone just got rich. Step one - get what you can out of the insurance company. Step two, tell the doctor that he better fork over $2million fast or you'll be standing outside his office with a big "He set my face on fire" sign.

Rezurok: FTFA: but something went bad wrong

I have only heard bad wrong one other place: stormy in sealab 2021. People actually say that? Is there a good wrong?

Yes. It involves a cousin of your own that's hotter than you really want to admit.

Ed Finnerty: Well that settles it. Her pants were lying.

Screw the rest of these jerks. I laughed.

"Hey, these things happen"

/obscure?

/last seen fleeing the location

I have had 2 fires in my ORs during my 20+ year anesthesiology career. The first was during a tracheostomy when cautery was used to penetrate the trachea, which was filled with (who knew?) oxygen. We heard a pop and saw a flash, and before I could even register what happened, a quick-thinking surgical resident had placed a wet lap sponge over the hole and quenched the fire. The patient suffered no harm.

The second was a few years later; a small child had some sort of lesion on his face, and the surgeon told me it would take 5 minutes, so we just used a mask to induce general anesthesia. What he DIDN'T tell me was that he was going to use cautery a few millimeters away from the plastic mask. It burst into flames, we promptly removed it from the kid's face and got a new mask to finish up with. He suffered second-degree burns to his face, in the Phantom Of The Opera pattern. We were very concerned for his eye, even though it was closed during the brief fire, and that day I learned just how sleazy some of our ophthalmologists were, as I couldn't get anyone to agree to see the kid. They were all afraid of the dreaded malpractice suit! Damn doing the right thing.

Bottom line: surgical fires, while rare, DO happen. Yeah, just one more thing to worry about.