Authors: Shakirov BM, Ashurova Noila, Mustafakulov EB, Hakimov EA.
Inhalation traumas occur in 10 - 30 of cases among patients with burns with this frequency of unfavorable outcomes of the diseases is 16% higher than in burns of the having the same area of damage. During a 3-year period, 28 children with deep burns of III-IV degree were treated at Burns Department of Republican Scientific Center of Urgent Medical Aid (RSCUMA), Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Performing sanation bronchoscopy, early respiratory supporting, rational anti-bacterial therapy and adequate nutritive supporting are the perspective way of the complex therapy for such type of the patients. Thus thermal damage to respiratory tract in combination with skin burns in children cause high letal outcome that requires to apply more informative method, i.e. of bronchoscopy which makes it possible to diagnose presence of thermal inhalation trauma, to determine prevalence and severity of damage, and to carry out medical manipulations as well.
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