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Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1573-398X
ISSN (Online): 1875-6387

Inhalational Injury: A Brief Review of Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment

Author(s): Delphine Engel and Riyad Karmy-Jones

Volume 11, Issue 1, 2015

Page: [30 - 34] Pages: 5

DOI: 10.2174/1573398X1101150706144638

Price: $65

Abstract

Lung injury resulting from inhaled toxins continues to be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Inhalation injury, when combined with epidermal burns, increases fluid resuscitation requirements. While cutaneous burns can be excised and grafted, pulmonary mucosa must be protected from secondary injury caused by mechanical ventilation, resuscitation, and infections to allow for host repair mechanisms. Many of the consequences of smoke inhalation result from activation of an inflammatory response with immune mediators which are not completely understood. Morbidity from smoke inhalation results from thermal injury and inhaled toxins.

Keywords: Burn, inhalation, airway, ARDS, bronchoscopy.


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