Lindford A J, Tehrani H, Sassoon E M, O'Neill T J
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Ann Burns Fire Disasters. 2006 Jun 30;19(2):99-100.
Oxygen as a therapeutic agent is an important form of home therapy for hypoxic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and improved survival has been demonstrated in hypoxic COPD patients receiving continuous oxygen. However, some patients, despite dissuasion, continue to smoke and we describe the case of a patient on home oxygen who sustained a partial-thickness facial flash burn whilst engaged in this habit. A review is made of the literature, as also a comparison of all discovered cases of burns in home oxygen users, followed by a discussion of the implications of this potentially hazardous form of therapy.
氧气作为一种治疗剂，是缺氧性慢性阻塞性肺疾病（COPD）家庭治疗的重要形式，并且已证实在接受持续吸氧的缺氧性COPD患者中生存率有所提高。然而，一些患者不顾劝阻继续吸烟，我们描述了一名在家吸氧的患者在保持这种习惯时面部发生浅度闪燃烧伤的病例。对文献进行了综述，并对所有已发现的家庭吸氧使用者烧伤病例进行了比较，随后讨论了这种具有潜在危险的治疗方式的影响。
