RT Book, Section A1 Wang, George Sam A1 Brent, Jeffrey A2 Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 Chiang, Vincent W. SR Print(0) ID 1146124018 T1 Fire-Related Inhalational Injury T2 Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071829281 LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146124018 RD 2024/03/28 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.