Inhalation Injury: State of the Science 2016.
This article summarizes research conducted over the last decade in the field of inhalation injury in thermally injured patients. This includes brief summaries of the findings of the 2006 State of the Science meeting with regard to inhalation injury, and of the subsequent 2007 Inhalation Injury Consensus Conference. The reviewed studies are categorized in to five general areas: diagnosis and grading; mechanical ventilation; systemic and inhalation therapy; mechanistic alterations; and outcomes.
From the *The Arizona Burn Center at Maricopa Integrated Health Systems, Phoenix, Arizona; and †Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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D035843:Biomedical Research; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002059:Burns, Inhalation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D011379:Prognosis; D012121:Respiration, Artificial