1) A 59-year-old female presented to the emergency department after being exposed to an explosion from a gas stove.
2) On examination, she had burns on her face, neck, arms and legs covering 38% of her total body surface area.
3) Laboratory tests and chest x-ray were normal with no signs of airway obstruction or inhalation trauma.
1) A 59-year-old female presented to the emergency department after being exposed to an explosion from a gas stove.
2) On examination, she had burns on her face, neck, arms and legs covering 38% of her total body surface area.
3) Laboratory tests and chest x-ray were normal with no signs of airway obstruction or inhalation trauma.
1) A 59-year-old female presented to the emergency department after being exposed to an explosion from a gas stove.
2) On examination, she had burns on her face, neck, arms and legs covering 38% of her total body surface area.
3) Laboratory tests and chest x-ray were normal with no signs of airway obstruction or inhalation trauma.
1) A 59-year-old female presented to the emergency department after being exposed to an explosion from a gas stove.
2) On examination, she had burns on her face, neck, arms and legs covering 38% of her total body surface area.
3) Laboratory tests and chest x-ray were normal with no signs of airway obstruction or inhalation trauma.
Plastic Surgery Department for evaluation due to suspect of inhalation trauma Medical History
Patient exposed to explosion of gas stove in
the kitchen (closed room) 15 hours prior admission and got burnt on face, neck, both arms and legs (VAS 5)
Patient was taken to Primary Health Care
Service and referred to RS Arya Medika and treated with IV Fluid 2000ml and observation of fluid balance with catheter
Patient was referred to CMER and has
difficulty of breath and hoarseness suspect of inhalation trauma Primary Survey
A: Clear, burn injury in the face
B: Spontan, RR: 20, SaO2: 100% on NRM
C: BP 120/90, HR 82x/m
D: Compos Mentis, E4M6V5
E: Mid dermal burn injury 38%TBSA
ENT Examination
Ear Nose Throat
• Right and left • Right and left nasal • Symmetric ear: cavity : nose hair is pharyngeal arch, • wide ear canal, burned, there were uvula in the middle, no discharge, no carbon soot, wide hyperemic posterior minimal nasal cavity, inferior pharyngeal wall, cerumen, intact turbinate eutrophic, there were no carbon tympanic no discharge, no soot membrane septal deviation, • Lung : Vesicular good air passage sound symmetric, no rhales nor wheezing. ENT Examination
Face : swelling, and
hyperemic, there was crust RFL CMER (February, 19th 2018) Laboratory Examination CMER (February 19th, 2019)
Hb : 16,1 mg/dl pH : 7,4
Ht : 50,2 % pCO2 : 38,2 WBC : 6090 u/l PO2 : 164 Platelet : 255.000 u/l SO2 : 99.4 PT : 9,5 (10,0) BE : 0,4 APTT : 31,6(33,4) Std HCO3 : 24,8 Ureum : 18,3 mg/dl HCO3 : 24,3 Creatinine : 0,738 mg/dl AST : 18 Total CO2 : 25,5 ALT : 15 BGL : 141 mg/dl Sodium : 139 mEq Potassium : 3,8 mEq Chlorida : 111 mEq Radiological Findings CMER (February 19th, 2019) Chest X Ray: There were no abnormality in the heart and lung Working Diagnosis
There were no sign of airway
obstruction and inhalation trauma
Mid dermal to full thickness
burn injury 38.5% TBSA (T31.2) Management Report to Susyana Tamin, MD, ORL, PhD : ▪ Antibiotic and analgetic according to Surgery Department ▪ Epinephrine inhalation according to Surgery Department ▪ Suggestion: ▪ Diagnostic Bronchoscopy Currently ENT- Bronchoesophagology Division is not able to this due to the malfunctioned of equipment Consult to Pulmonology if needed
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