For a medical symptom description of 'Bitter taste in mouth', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Bitter tastes (symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Bitter taste in mouth' may be possible.
The mortality rate among patients with burns at our two hospitals (4 percent) is consistent with those recently reported from other centers.9,10 Three risk factors for death after burns were identified: an age of more than 60 years, burn size of more than 40 percent of body-surface area, and inhalation injury.
The number one cause of death related to fires is smoke inhalation. Smoke inhalation occurs when you breathe in the products of combustion during a fire. Combustion results from the rapid breakdown of a substance by heat (more commonly called burning). Smoke is a mixture of heated particles and gases. It is impossible to predict the exact composition of smoke produced by a fire.