What is the stage classification of her burn injury

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Scenario: M.J. is a 23-year-old white woman transferred via ambulance to the hospital after a fire in her apartment. She was asleep when the fire started and managed to make her way out of the apartment through the smoke. She sustained second- and third-degree burns over the right side of her face and neck, right side of the anterior trunk, 2/3 of lower right thigh, and right arm. In the emergency department, she received a tetanus shot, morphine for pain, and 2 L of IV fluids.

Question: What is the stage classification of her burn injury? How do you make this determination?

Note: Is the stage and classification not partial-thickness second degree burn and full-thickness third degree burn? I'm not sure the appropriate nomenclature for staging and classification with the information provided. Circumferential? I calculated TBSA to be 25.5% based on Lund and Browder assessment formula.

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