Inhalation Injury: Pathophysiology and Clinical Care. Proceedings of a Symposium Conducted at the Trauma Institute of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA on 28 March 2006.

摘要

Despite advances in critical care in general and in mechanical ventilation in particular, inhalation injury continues to impose an unacceptable burden of morbidity and mortality on burn patients. The recent conflict in Iraq has produced an increase in the number of patients with inhalation injury treated here at the U.S. Army Burn Center, and has led to new observations concerning the many complications of inhalation injury such as the risk of laryngeal sequelae. Meanwhile, ongoing research has continued to expand our understanding of the pathophysiology of inhalation injury. In March 2006, we conducted a multi-disciplinary conference under the auspices of the Trauma Institute of San Antonio (TRISAT) which was broadcast from this center at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, via video teleconference, to our sister institutions, Wilford Hall Medical Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Our purpose was to review both current clinical practice and recent laboratory investigations.