Airway Management and Smoke Inhalation Injury in the Burn Patient

Abstract

Plastic surgeons frequently provide care to patients who have burn injuries and concomitant smoke inhalation injury (II). About 10% of patients admitted to burn centers have II, which greatly increases their risk for postburn pneumonia and mortality, especially at the midranges of age and burn size.1 3 This article reviews the essential diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the treatment of these patients. An understanding of II and what to do about it has only developed over the last 50 years. Consider the scene at Massachusetts General Hospital on the evening of November 28, 1942, following one of the largest indoor fire disasters in U.S. history, at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA632608

Entities

People

  • Leopoldo C. Cancio

Organizations

  • United States Army Institute of Surgical Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airway Management
  • Burns
  • Health Services
  • Larynx
  • Lung Diseases
  • Medical Personnel
  • Respiration Disorders
  • Wounds And Injuries

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Immunology and Pathology
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Trauma Surgery or Emergency Medicine.