Abstract

FRANCO MORA, María del Carmen et al. Non invasive mechanical ventilation in the massive care to patients with thermal injuries. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.5, pp. 621-629. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross sectional study of 32 patients (mostly male young people), assisted in the Provincial Caumatology Service of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from August to September, 2012, as a consequence of a huge fire taking place in a servicenter from this city, with the aim of characterizing them from the clinical, epidemiological and therapeutic points of view. Injuries due to inhalation in people with more than 20% of burned body surface to whom non invasive mechanical ventilation was applied since the first 72 hours with a positive response, prevailed in the case material. The 6 affected patients who presented more than 90% of burned body surface and one of those who presented 60-79% died. It was demonstrated that with the use of this technique in the first 72 hours in the largely burned patients, with severe injuries due to inhalation it is possible to decrease mortality significantly

Keywords : burn; thermal lesion; non invasive mechanical ventilation; injury due to inhalation.

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