A survey of current practices in the diagnosis of and interventions for inhalational injuries in Canadian burn centres
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Abstract
I nhalation injury (INHI) is a comorbid factor that increases the risk of mortality in burn victims (1-3).The combination of INHI and burn is associated with complex pathophysiological alterations including increased pulmonary microvascular permeability and prolonged cardiac depression in ovine models (4,5).In a Canadian study, Tredget et al (6) reported that INHI increases burn mortality and prolongs hospital stay independent of age and burn size.In spite of the clinical significance of INHI, there has been a lack of academic progress in the clinical management in this field.Palmieri (7) concluded from the 2007 Inhalation Injury Consensus Conference that questions regarding INHI diagnosis and grading have remained unanswered even though they were initially identified more than two decades previously.Although fibreoptic bronchoscopy is the widely accepted standard to diagnose INHI, other modalities, such as patient history and physical examination, carboxyhemoglobin levels, Xenon-133 scans and pulmonary function tests are used in various nonstandardized combinations (8).There is also insufficient evidence to establish long-term outcomes and treatment protocols in INHI.The use of heparin nebulization, mode of ventilation, timing of intubation and fluid resuscitation requirements are mostly driven by local preferences in individual burn centres.The controversies in the areas of INHI highlight the need for standardized protocols in both diagnosing and treating INHIs.However, the first step is to evaluate current practices.The challenge is that most Canadian burn centres do not have a sufficient volume of burn patients to support substantial scientific studies.Therefore, the issue should be approached on a national level.There are no studies that have compiled current practices in North America.The objective of the present study was to summarize current Canadian practice patterns in the diagnosis of and interventions for INHI.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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