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73.3% of the injuries were projectile in nature with 26.7% being characterised by burns. A total of 105 facial injuries in 32 patients from 32 e-cigarette explosions were recorded.

ResultsĪ total of 28 studies met the inclusion criteria. An association between the predictor variables of injury type and location with outcomes of surgical management and intubation was determined by utilising a Chi-squared analysis. Data extraction and synthesisĭata pertaining to bibliographic information, device characteristics, patient details, facial injuries, factors precipitating explosion, complications at follow-up, management and other injuries were extracted. Also were excluded, those studies which did not specify injury location or if the injury did not pertain to the maxillofacial region. Review articles, nonclinical studies, commentaries, published abstracts and editorials were excluded. Retrospective or prospective cohort studies, randomised controlled trials, case series, case-control studies and case reports on e-cigarette explosion-related facial injuries published in the English language were included.

MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Embase and Web of Science along with the reference lists from select articles.

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