Inhalation Injury
The Association of Pneumonia with Clinical Outcome in Patients with Inhalation Injury
... smoke inhalation injury involves the activation of an inflammatory cascade leading to free radical gen- eration, which combines with toxic products of combus- tion to de-epithelialize the endobronchial ...
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Pharmacological treatment of inhalation injury after nuclear or radiological incidents: The Chinese and German approach
... of inhalation of relatively insoluble radioactive materials and high exposures ...radionuclide inhalation. In the case of ther- mal CRI patients with inhalation injury having fiberoptic ...
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Diagnosis and management of inhalation injury: an updated review
... pressure (P < 0.02), and plateau pressures (P < 0.02) compared with those on LTV ventilation. Furthermore, the incidence of atelectasis and ARDs was significantly lower in the cohort receiving HTV ventilation (P ...
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Chest computed tomography performed on admission helps predict the severity of smoke inhalation injury
... Methods: We evaluated 37 patients who had sustained smoke-inhalation injuries and had undergone chest CT within a few hours of admission to a hospital. Bronchoscopy was performed according to a standardized ...
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JNK activation is responsible for mucus overproduction in smoke inhalation injury
... Smoke inhalation injury is a serious threat to victims of house fires, explosions, and other disasters involving fire and ...of injury alone can be lethal as shown in the Cocoanut Grove fire, in ...
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Substance use and inhalation injury in adult burn patients: retrospective study of the impact on outcomes
... Inhalation injury is defined as the trauma to the re- spiratory tract following the inhalation of smoke and/or chemical products of combustion ...
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Assessing inhalation injury in the emergency room
... smoke inhalation is required similar to standard assessment and management for all trauma ...for inhalation injury exist, appropriate initial management can influence a favor- able ...lung ...
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Pediatric inhalation injury
... HCN is the gaseous form of cyanide and can be a sig- nificant component of inhaled smoke from structural fires. Clinically, small amounts of cyanide are metabo- lized in the liver. However, more abundant and faster ab- ...
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Inhalation injury: epidemiology, pathology, treatment strategies
... A key component of the success of noninvasive venti- lation has been selection of awake, cooperative, spontan- eously breathing patients. These individuals must be able to protect their airway. Hemodynamic or electrocar- ...
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The progress of Chinese burn medicine from the Third Military Medical University—in memory of its pioneer, Professor Li Ao
... Active care, including early diagnosis, early airway control, and mechanical ventilation, has contributed to the improved clinical treatment effect [20]. The in- creased application of fiber-optic bronchoscopy aided the ...
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Considerations for pediatric burn sedation and analgesia
... care, inhalation injury, presence of burn hypermetabo- lism, and pain associated with burn wounds ...Burn injury markedly alters the PK and pharmacodynamics (PD) of many drugs ...
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Vaughan_unc_0153M_17043.pdf
... and inhalation injury affects almost half a million people in the United States each year and it is one of the most complicated forms of trauma to ...inhalational injury, as well as means by which to ...
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Increased mortality in women: sex differences in burn outcomes
... depth, inhalation injury, or age distribution within the 30- to 59-age bracket, or to any differences in complication incidence, such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, acute renal ...
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Characteristics of burn deaths from 2003 to 2009 in a burn center: A retrospective study
... burns. Inhalation injury was diagnosed in 36 ...of inhalation injury compared with survivors; non- survivors were also more likely to have microorganism-positive blood and sputum ...
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Original Article The anti-inflammatory effects of simvastatin in a rat model of smoke inhalation lung injury
... smoke inhalation injury, the NF-κB protein ex- pression in the lung tissue was increased, indi- cating the involvement of NF-κB in the inflam- matory response that causes a series of path- ophysiological ...
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The effect of diabetes on burn patients: a retrospective cohort study
... age, inhalation injury, and TBSA%, the overall morbidity and respiratory failure still remained significantly higher in the diabetic ...age, inhalation injury, and ...
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Association between hydroxocobalamin administration and acute kidney injury after smoke inhalation: a multicenter retrospective study
... Cyanide poisoning has been suspected to account for deaths after smoke inhalation [12]. Hydroxocoba- lamin (Cyanokit®, Merck Santé SAS) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of cyanide ...
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Steam Vaporizer Injuries
... Pediatrics 67:661-663, 1981; steam vaporizers, burns, accidents, respiratory tract burns, inhalation injury.. The use of steam and cool-air vaporizers for symptomatic therapy in upper ai[r] ...
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Etiology, Outcome and Mortality Risk Factors in Children Burn
... had inhalation injury (11.25%). Inha- lation injury increases the risk of death (Odds Ratio: ...were: Inhalation injury (OR = ...
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Soluble urokinase type plasminogen activator receptor levels in patients with burn injuries and inhalation trauma requiring mechanical ventilation: an observational cohort study
... of inhalation injury is not always obvious in burn patients, as pulmonary symptoms may not appear until 24 hours after exposure ...an inhalation burn, apart from possible therapeutic reasons, is ...
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