Burns covering 70% of his body? He is as good as dead. They couldn't put enough skin grafts and artificial skin on his charred body to prevent infection. What a horrible way to go.
~ Blue Jays ~
That's the old CW. One hundred minus (Percent burned plus age in years) equals odds of survival was how it was taught to me. However, that doesn't take into account advances in burn treatment and artificial skin grafts.
Guy's got, I would estimate based on burn vics I've known, a 50-50 chance. Like you said, infection is the greatest threat to him right now. Skin keeps infection out, and Suleyman is missing a whole bunch of it.
Burn treatment is being revolutionized even now by military doctors... thanks to the sonofabitches who put a propane tank in an IED.
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