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Case Reports
. 2006 Jun 30;19(2):99-100.

Home oxygen therapy and cigarette smoking: a dangerous practice

A J Lindford  1 , H Tehrani, E M Sassoon, T J O'Neill
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Home oxygen therapy and cigarette smoking: a dangerous practice

A J Lindford et al. Ann Burns Fire Disasters. .

Abstract
in English, French

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.

L'oxygène comme agent thérapeutique constitue une forme importante des soins domestiques pour la maladie pulmonaire obstructive chronique hypoxique et une amélioration a été démontrée dans la survie des patients atteints de cette maladie qui reçoivent l'oxygène en manière continuelle. Cependant, certains patients, malgré la dissuasion, continuent à fumer et les Auteurs décrivent le cas d'un patient traité à la maison avec l'oxygène qui a été atteint de brûlures du visage à épaisseur partielle causée par un flux thermique tandis qu'il était en train de fumer. Les Auteurs considèrent la littérature relative, présentent une comparaison de tous les cas qu'ils ont découverts de brûlures subies par des patients qui utilisaient l'oxygénothérapie domestique, et concluent en discutant les implications de ce type de thérapie potentiellement risqué.

Keywords: cigarette; dangerous; oxygen; practice; smoking; therapy.

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