2021, Number 4
Inhalation injury. Case report
Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 617-622
PDF size: 505.27 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Respiratory lesions for inhalation of combustion composed by organic and inorganic material is a frequent event in fires. The objective of this report is to describe the clinical picture that is presented of a 63-year-old male and black patient who is a laborer, and suffers from hypertension, he wakes up with ¨shortness of breath¨, in a bedroom full of smoke, after a fired had begun in his house and he survives to the event. When he arrives to the Emergency Unit of the Caumatology Ward, he is very anxious, with polypnea, non- productive cough, dysphonia and light somnolence, the determination of the fraction levels of carboxyhemoglobin (20.4 %), facilitated the diagnosis. The lesions for inhalation and intoxication with carbon monoxide, is frequent when burns are produced in a closed place. Immediate therapy with oxygen at high concentrations turns out to be a salvation measure given the impossibility of hyperbaric oxygenation.REFERENCES
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