“…Without early intervention, some partial thickness burns progress to full thickness injuries, exposing the patient to substantial morbidity and undergoing excision and grafting [2]. Despite multiple advances in acute treatment and surgical management, the decision to debride a burn still largely relies on the experience and visual perception of the individual surgeon [3]. Because early clinician accuracy is limited, ranging The current standard of care in determining the need to excise and graft a burn remains with the burn surgeon, whose clinical judgment is often variable.…”