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Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Inhalation Injury and Respiratory Failure:
Attorney for Victim Compensation
Attorney David Szerlag is a former fire fighter with training in advanced life support and hazardous material. For a free consultation with a lawyer about inhalation injury and respiratory failure, please call 1-888-377-8900 (TOLL FREE) or submit our free consultation form.
Inhalation Injury and Burn Victims
Inhalation injury occurs in between 2.5% and 15% of burn victims. It can even be present if no burn has occurred, merely through exposure to inhalants that can cause burn injury. A U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research study from 1985 and 1990 found that mortality for burn victims where concomitant inhalation injury occurs is six times higher (29.5%) than for those without inhalation injury.
Inhalation injury encompasses many different agents responsible for injury. The types of injury are divided between those caused by asphyxiants such as carbon monoxide and local injury caused by toxins or steam.
General Symptoms of Inhalation Injury and Treatment
- Hypoxia (low oxygen)
- Reactive bronchorrhea (excessive mucus secretions)
- Inspissated secretions (thickened or dry mucus)
- Wheezing
- Plugging (inspissated mucus or shedding of mucus membrane)
- Brochospasm (contraction of muscles in the bronchi)
- Respiratory failure
Causes of Inhalation Injury and Respiratory Failure
For information regarding specific causes of inhalation injury, see the following pages:
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Cyanide Poisoning
- Chemical Inhalation Injuries
- Complications of Inhalation Injuries
Attorney for Inhalation Injury Compensation
To contact an attorney at PritzkerOlsen, P.A. about inhalation injury compensation, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our free case consultation form.
Sources:
Carrougher, Gretchern J. (1998). Burn Care and Therapy. St. Louis: Mosby Inc.
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Burn Injury Lawsuit Settled
Our law firm settled a case involving an apartment fire. Two people died, and two others were injured, one seriously. Learn about a burn injury lawsuit, scald burn, and apartment fire.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Attorneys Fred Pritzker and Elliot Olsen spoke at the annual Minnesota Association for Justice Brain Injury Seminar. They represent brain injury survivors in personal injury cases throughout the nation.
Burn Injury Compensation
- Medical expenses
- Pain and suffering, including physical pain, suffering, emotional distress, disfigurment, disability, mental impairment
- Lost earnings, including lost potential earnings
- Cost of care
Burn Attorney
Information on a burn injury lawsuit, including liability of any of the following:
- An employer
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- The driver of a vehicle
- A manufacturer
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- A person who serviced a propane tank, vehicle, piece of equipment, etc.
- A landlord
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Burn Brain Damage
Brain damage associated with fires is usually cerebral hypoxia (also referred to as cerebral anoxia), a condition where there is an absence of oxygen to the brain.
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