ALLMedicine™ Smoke Inhalation Injury Center

Oct 27th, 2021 - We report a case of a 43-year-old woman who underwent double lung transplantation from a donor with severe airway burns following a house fire. The recipient's lung function and quality of life remain excellent 24 months following transplantation....

Oct 15th, 2021 - Practice Essentials Smoke inhalation is the leading cause of death due to fires. It produces injury through several mechanisms, including thermal injury to the upper airway, irritation or chemical injury to the airways from soot, asphyxiation, and...

Oct 15th, 2021 - Practice Essentials Smoke inhalation is the leading cause of death due to fires. It produces injury through several mechanisms, including thermal injury to the upper airway, irritation or chemical injury to the airways from soot, asphyxiation, and...

Oct 15th, 2021 - Approach Considerations Beware that patients may appear asymptomatic on arrival but may develop significant signs and symptoms as long as 36 hours after exposure, especially in fires, which produce small particles with low water solubility. Be awa...

Oct 15th, 2021 - History In patients exposed to smoke, details of the exposure—the duration, the amount of smoke inhaled, and the toxins contained in the smoke--can help determine the risk for inhalation injury. Unfortunately, these details are often not known, al...

Apr 4th, 2019 - In Europe, hydroxocobalamin (cyanokit) is the antidote recommended by expert consensus in cases of suspicion of cyanide intoxication associated with the inhalation of fire smoke (1). However, cyanokit has never been evaluated in this indication. C...

Aug 25th, 2017 - The researcher can use Optical coherence tomography endoscopic imaging to improve diagnosis and treatment of airway and pleural malignancy. In the events of burn injury and smoke inhalation injury, the Optical coherence tomography can determine th...

Sep 21st, 2015 - This is a prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing HFPV to conventional ventilator modes in the support of burn patients with respiratory failure. Burn patients who develop the need for mechanical ventilation present a variety of challe...