RT Book, Section
A1 Enkhbaatar, Perenlei
A2 Grippi, Michael A.
A2 Elias, Jack A.
A2 Fishman, Jay A.
A2 Kotloff, Robert M.
A2 Pack, Allan I.
A2 Senior, Robert M.
A2 Siegel, Mark D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1122365277
T1 Thermal Lung Injury and Acute Smoke Inhalation
T2 Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 5e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179672-9
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1122365277
RD 2024/04/25
AB Smoke  inhalation  is  a  serious  medical  problem  and  continues  to  have  a  significant  impact  on  the  morbidity  and  mortality  of  patients  with  flame  burns.  According  to  the  American  Burn  Association  Repository  (2012),  inhalation  injury  is  present  in  17%  of  patients  with  flame  burns  and  increases  the  overall  mortality  rate  of  these  patients  up  to  24%,  while  the  mortality  of  burn  patients  without  inhalation  injury  is  3%.1  The  presence  of  smoke  inhalation  injury  prolongs  the  length  of  hospital  stay  2.5-fold  compared  to  those  without  smoke  inhalation  injury  (24  days  vs.  10  days).1