Acute inhalation injury.
Recent events have underscored the importance of proper diagnosis and management of patients with inhalation injury. Clinicians who care for individuals who have sustained inhalation damage to their respiratory tract need to take a careful exposure history and be alert to possibilities of delayed effects and clinical deterioration. Although supportive care and prevention remain the cornerstone of current approaches to this condition, better understanding of the mechanisms of cellular injury and repair may lead to improved treatments in the future.
Rabinowitz
Peter M
PM
Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale University School of Medicine, 135 College Street, Room 392, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. peter.rabinowitz@yale.edu
Siegel
Mark D
MD
D000208:Acute Disease; D002059:Burns, Inhalation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000187:drug effects; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors