TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Burns and fatal acute lung injury ignited by a smartphone charger during non-invasive ventilation for CoViD-19
JO  - Surgical Infections
A1  - Shah, Shawn L.
A1  - Barie, Philip S.
A1  - Bronstein, Matthew E.
A1  - Chang, Philip H.
A1  - Gibson, Cameron J.
A1  - Houng, Abraham P.
A1  - Kelly, Anton E.
A1  - Lee, Christina
A1  - Lodescar, Rachelle J.
A1  - Mahadev, Srihari
A1  - Shou, Jian
A1  - Smith, Kira E.
A1  - Villegas, Cassandra V.
A1  - Winchell, Robert J.
A1  - Narayan, Mayur
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rages, understanding of disease pathophysiology evolves [1]. Because the primary transmission mode is respiratory droplets, pneumonia is the predominant serious manifestation, requiring oxygen therapy (if not mechanical ventilation) that can be hazardous. We describe a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia who sustained burns and a fatal acute lung injury during oxygen administration by high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC).     A 61-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and hypertension presented elsewhere with a four-day history of worsening dry cough and exertional dyspnea. His room-air oxygen saturation (SaO2) was 80% with a respiratory rate of 30 breaths per minute. Oxygen via HFNC was begun (FIO2 0.7, flow rate 60 L/min). A chest radiograph showed bilateral airspace opacities, and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing (nasopharyngeal specimen) detected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). During oxygen therapy, the patient began charging his smartphone, triggering a spark that ignited the oxygen tubing and the patient's hospital gown, resulting in inhalation injury with full- and partial-thickness torso burns comprising 15% total body surface area. After emergent endotracheal intubation, he was transferred to us for specialty burn care...<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1096-2964
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/sur.2021.121
ID  - ref1
ER  -