Eight codes

What are the eight codes? Code: An 62-year-old female is brought by EMT to the ED. She sustained   2ndndrd degree burns to both anterior thighs, 2 degree burns of abdominal wall, and 3 degree burns to back of both hands due to dropping a boiling pot of water off the kitchen stove in her home where she lives alone. First calculate her % of third-degree burns. Next, calculate this patient’s extent of body surface involved. (there are eight codes for this initial medical encounter).

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