Lesson learnt from Grey's Anatomy Season 6 Episode 6
Trauma Surgery
To always check for inhalational burns in a burn victim no matter how well the patient appears to be.
Check for burnt signs in the throat and any soot coming out from the throat.
Inhalational burnts can involved the whole respiratory tract & lungs.
This leads to oedema of the respiratory lining due to inflammation.
The airway can be blocked any time when the swelling is big enough to occlude it.
Thus, the patient needs to be intubated STAT.
Inflammatory mediators released will get into the circulatory system and it can cause disseminated intravascular coagulation.
The patient can bleed from everywhere and the bleeding will be very difficult to stop.
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