Smoke Inhalation Injury in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care

Prognostic Factors for Smoke Inhalation Injury in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care

Many Studies have shown that the smoke-inhalation injury is responsible for a high mortality mainly related to the systemic effects of carbon monoxide and cyanide. Respiratory lesions induced by smoke inhalation, is one of predictive factors of mortality.

The aim of the study is to identify the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of smoke-inhalation injury and to identify prognostic factors among these patients .

The study is a monocentric, retrospective, descriptive and analytical study , betwen december 1997 and september 2018 in intensive care unit of university of hospital.

All patients aged over 18 year and who had received a diagnosis of smoke- inhalation injury and were admitted to the ICU of Medical University Hospital , a referral center in Paris providing HBO therapy , were potentially eligible for inclusion in this investigation.

Criteria used for recommending HBO therapy to a patient with transient or prolonged unconsciousness, abnormal neurologic findings on physical examination.

Data were analyzed to identify independent factors that may influence mortality.

Inclusion Criteria

• Men or women over the age of 18
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy between 1997 and 2018

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients under 18 years old.
• Patient opposed to the use of his data
• Patients not treated with hyperbaric oxygen