TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Fire-Related Inhalational Injury A1 - Wang, George Sam A1 - Brent, Jeffrey A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. PY - 2017 T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Fire-related injuries constitute a major health hazard in the United States. It is estimated there is a civilian fire death every 175 minutes, and a civilian death from a home fire every 208 minutes in the United States.1 It is also a leading cause of pediatric accidental injury and death. In 2009, burn-related fatalities were the sixth leading cause of accidental injury-related death in children under 19 years, and the third leading cause between the ages of 1 and 9 years.2 The injury to the skin can be just one facet of the potentially multisystem insults that occur. Smoke inhalation is the leading cause of death in house fires, with mortality rates of approximately 5% to 8%.3 The focus of this chapter is inhalation injury associated with fires and incomplete combustion, specifically, thermal airway injuries, smoke inhalation, carbon monoxide (CO), and cyanide poisoning. Dermal burns are discussed in Chapter 162. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146124018 ER -