The 42-year-old woman who received 80% burns to her body in an escape room in Cájar has left the ICU in the Hospital Virgen del Rocío in Sevilla.
This is thanks to the staff in the ICU, as well as the treatment received in the ICU in Granada’s Hospital de Neurotraumatología. Mainly, without detracting from the above, it’s thanks to the victim’s amazing capacity to survive.
The accident took place on the 26th of June in an old house on the outskirts of Cájar. Reports state that she was accidently doused with an inflammable liquid (gasoline), which then ignited leading to extensive burns over most of her body.
The escape room was immediately closed down by the Guardia Civil and investigations began to clarify how the accident occurred.
Note: an escape room is space filled with clues and riddles that those inside have to follow and solve in order to get back out. It can comprise of one or more rooms. The one in Cájar is one of the best known ones in and around the city of Granada, which is just under twelve kilometres away.
(News: Cajar, Vega de Granada, Andalucia)
Yep. For a while. Well most of my working life. Burns are awful. Whether by flame or boiling water. Cooling down with whatever water you have etc. I thought the rules for burns were pretty universal. Like the Glasgow Coma Scale and C.P.R.
But things move on. Better to try to help then to stand by screaming.!!
Patrick: I was struck by the same thought. The man you can see running from the flames, virtually on fire, on a video shown on the BBC and all over the Spanish press, also received 80% burns to his body. I always though that you wouldn’t survive with anything over 50% burns or even less, so either burn treatment has advanced tremendously or Spanish medical evaluation is different to the UK’s. Didn’t you work on the ambulances, Patrick?
Well that puts paid to my limited knowledge. I was taught that an indicator of not surviving burns. Was to have age , plus area of burns added together. The nearer 100. Then the more likely to not survive.
Goes to show. The Great hospital care and the human spirit to survive. !!