Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Patient with Severe Inhalation Injury: Multidisciplinary Burn Team Care.
J Burn Care Res
; 45(3): 796-800, 2024 05 06.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Inhalation injury is a major risk factor for mortality in burn patients via 3 primary mechanisms airway edema and obstruction, hypoxemic respiratory failure, and pneumonia. Currently, the mainstay of treatment is supportive care to include early intubation, lung-protective or high-frequency-percussive mechanical ventilation, nebulized heparin, and aggressive pulmonary toilet. Despite these treatments, a subset of these patients progress to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) for which rescue options are limited. CASE PRESENTATION A 31-year-old woman was found down in a house fire. On admission to the burn intensive care unit, she was diagnosed with grade 3 smoke inhalation injury. Cutaneous thermal injury was absent. By hospital day 2, she developed worsening hypoxemia and hypercapnia despite maximal ventilatory support. She was placed on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). She received an average of 2.2 hours of direct rehabilitation a day and completed out-of-bed modalities over 90% of total hospital days. After 159 hours, she was decannulated, and by hospital day 18, she was discharged home on supplemental oxygen.CONCLUSION:
Current literature regarding ECMO in inhalation injury is limited, but a growing body of evidence suggests that treatment of severe smoke inhalation injury should include ECMO for those who fail conventional therapy.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea
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Lesión por Inhalación de Humo
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Burn Care Res
Asunto de la revista:
TRAUMATOLOGIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos