Superficial Partial-Thickness Burn Study

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to provide informed consent
• 18 years of age or older, male and female
• Patients who have sustained superficial, partial-thickness burn wounds ≤ to 10% oftotal body surface area (TBSA)
• Patients otherwise in good general physical and mental health, as per theinvestigator's clinical judgment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to provide informed consent
• Deep partial-thickness burns and full-thickness burns
• Radiation, chemical, or electrical burn injury
• Patients with burns primarily located to the face, genitals, or span across joints
• Patients whose burn injury was ≥ to 48 hours prior to entry into the UPMC Mercy BurnCenter Clinic.
• Patients with uncontrolled cerebrovascular disease, cardiovascular disease, endocrinedisease, hepatic disease, or renal disease; or other severe conditions for whom, inthe physician investigators' discretion, would render study participation unsafe
• Patients with documented or self-reported shellfish allergies
• Current pregnancy
• Patients with concurrent burn related injuries or inhalation injury that would put thepatient at increased risk, per physician discretion
• Any condition to which in the investigator's discretion would render study enrollmenta safety concern for the patient