Biomaterial Database

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for acute smoke inhalation injuries. 1991

G W Meyer, and G B Hart, and M B Strauss

Department of Baromedicine, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, CA 90801-1401.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an important adjunct in the management of respiratory injuries secondary to smoke inhalation, especially when injury is complicated by inhalation of a toxic chemical such as carbon monoxide or cyanide. For carbon monoxide poisoning, such therapy has become a standard of practice. As more information becomes available concerning the ability of hyperbaric oxygen to reduce reperfusion injuries, we anticipate that this therapy will become a standard of practice for managing smoke inhalation injuries and cyanide poisoning as well.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011041	Poisoning	A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation of or exposure to a deleterious agent.	Poisonings
D002249	Carbon Monoxide Poisoning	Toxic asphyxiation due to the displacement of oxygen from oxyhemoglobin by carbon monoxide.	Illuminating Gas Poisoning,Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide,Poisoning, Illuminating Gas,Carbon Monoxide Poisonings,Gas Poisoning, Illuminating,Gas Poisonings, Illuminating,Illuminating Gas Poisonings,Monoxide Poisoning, Carbon,Monoxide Poisonings, Carbon,Poisonings, Carbon Monoxide,Poisonings, Illuminating Gas
D003486	Cyanides	Inorganic salts of HYDROGEN CYANIDE containing the -CN radical. The concept also includes isocyanides. It is distinguished from NITRILES, which denotes organic compounds containing the -CN radical.	Cyanide,Isocyanide,Isocyanides
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D006931	Hyperbaric Oxygenation	The therapeutic intermittent administration of oxygen in a chamber at greater than sea-level atmospheric pressures (three atmospheres). It is considered effective treatment for air and gas embolisms, smoke inhalation, acute carbon monoxide poisoning, caisson disease, clostridial gangrene, etc. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992). The list of treatment modalities includes stroke.	Oxygenation, Hyperbaric,Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy,Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapies,Hyperbaric Oxygenations,Oxygen Therapies, Hyperbaric,Oxygen Therapy, Hyperbaric,Oxygenations, Hyperbaric,Therapies, Hyperbaric Oxygen,Therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen
D000931	Antidotes	Agents counteracting or neutralizing the action of POISONS.	Antidote,Theriacs
D015208	Smoke Inhalation Injury	Pulmonary injury following the breathing in of toxic smoke from burning materials such as plastics, synthetics, building materials, etc. This injury is the most frequent cause of death in burn patients.	Inhalation Injury, Smoke,Injury, Smoke Inhalation,Inhalation Injuries, Smoke,Injuries, Smoke Inhalation,Smoke Inhalation Injuries