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Clinical features above larynx

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The clinical features of inhalational injury above the larynx develop over a time course of four hours to a day. Typically they are, in order of severity:

  • worsening stridor
  • hoarseness
  • weak voice
  • brassy cough
  • restlessness
  • respiratory difficulty
  • respiratory obstruction
  • death

Reference

  1. Deutsch CJ, Tan A, Smailes S, Dziewulski P. The diagnosis and management of inhalation injury: An evidence based approach. Burns. 2018 Aug;44(5):1040-1051.

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