Scoring System for Inhalation Injury

American Burn Association

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inhalation Injury

Treatments: Other: Standard of Care

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01194024

ABA-MCTG-0004

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this multicenter study is to develop a standardized scoring system for inhalation injury that can be used both to quantify and predict injury severity inhalation injury in adults over 18 years of age. A model will be developed based on clinical, radiographic, bronchoscopic, and biochemical parameters that will predict the severity of inhalation injury with greater than 80% predictive accuracy

Full description

The goal of this multicenter study is to develop a standardized scoring system for inhalation injury that can be used both to quantify and predict injury severity inhalation injury in adults over 18 years of age. A model will be developed based on clinical, radiographic, bronchoscopic, and biochemical parameters that will predict the severity of inhalation injury with greater than 80% predictive accuracy

Enrollment: 108 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Injury consistent with inhalation of smoke or products of combustion

• Requires intubation within 24 hours of injury

• Meets one of the following 4 criteria

  1. history of closed space injury
  2. carbonaceous sputum
  3. elevated carboxyhemoglobin
  4. dx of inhalation injury is considered likely by investigator

Exclusion criteria

• ≤ 17 years of age
• Prisoner

Trial design

108 participants in 1 patient group

Intubated within 24hrs of admission

Description:

All patients that are admitted to a participating burn center and intubated within 24 hours

Treatment:

Other: Standard of Care