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The Outcomes of Inhalation Injuries in Lesser Burns: Still a Deadly Injury.

Salomon Puyana¹, Samuel Ruiz², Francisco Amador³

¹Department of Plastic Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

|May 23, 2022

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Inhalation injuries independently worsen burn outcomes, increasing mortality and length of stay even in smaller burns. This study confirms inhalation injury as a significant risk factor for burn patients.

Keywords:

Burns Critical Care Inhalation injury Outcomes Patient safety Quality outcomes

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Background:

Inhalation injuries are suspected to worsen burn outcomes.
Large-scale studies are needed to confirm the relationship between inhalation injuries and burn outcomes.
This study investigates inhalation injuries as an independent risk factor.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if inhalation injuries are an independent risk factor for worsened burn outcomes.
To analyze the impact of inhalation injuries on mortality and length of stay in burn patients.
To evaluate outcomes in burn patients with and without inhalation injuries.

Main Methods:

Retrospective review of the American Burn Association Registry (2002-2011).
Inclusion criteria: burn patients with <15% total body surface area (TBSA) and recorded inhalation injury status.
Stratification into two groups: inhalation injury (n=4204) vs. no inhalation injury (n=89577).

Main Results:

No significant difference in TBSA between groups (3.50% vs. 3.58%).
Significantly higher intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS) in the inhalation injury group (8.55 days vs. 6.27 days).
Significantly higher hospital LOS (11.48 days vs. 6.27 days) and in-hospital mortality (8.54% vs. 1.42%) in the inhalation injury group.

Conclusions:

Inhalation injury is a predictor of increased mortality in burn patients.
Inhalation injury is associated with poor outcomes, including longer hospital stays.
These findings hold true even for burn patients with small total body surface area burns.