“…For inhalation injuries, an RCT found a significant reduction in mortality with a combination of: (i) systemic administration of cefotaxime, (ii) application of polymyxin B, tobramycin, and amphotericin B to the nasopharynx, and (iii) oral administration of SDD 11 . As for prophylactic systemic administration of antimicrobial agents when burns are complicated by inhalation injuries, some reports showed that it is not effective in preventing the onset of pneumonia, but it helped reduce mortality 12,13 …”