Frostbite occurs when the skin and underlying tissues become frozen as a result of exposure to below-freezing temperatures. This requires rapid but careful rewarming of the tissues.
(A ‘cold’ burn is actually tissue damage from extreme cold thus treatment is different from thermal burns. An example is when the skin touches and sticks to an extremely cold surface (eg metal, ice) or comes into contact with liquefied gases (eg LPG) resulting in rapid frostbite.)
