Acute ammonia-induced intoxication is a kind of acute irritant gas poisoning, which mainly causes systemic inflammatory reaction and immune dysfunction through direct and indirect lung injury, leading to chemogenic pulmonary edema and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The mechanism of its toxic injury is complex, and the fatality rate of patients increases significantly once ARDS occurs. In this paper, the patient with acute and severe ammonia-induced intoxication was successfully treated by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) combined with fiberoptic bronchoscopy and other critical technologies, and achieved good results. By analyzing the diagnosis and treatment process of severe ammonia-induced intoxication complicated with ARDS patients, this paper summarizes the clinical characteristics of ammonia-induced intoxication injury, and the application opportunities of ECMO and various critical medical technologies, so as to facilitate the efficient intervention and treatment of ammonia-induced intoxication according to the clinical opportunity and improve the survival rate of patients.

Acute ammonia-induced intoxication is a kind of acute irritant gas poisoning, which mainly causes systemic inflammatory reaction and immune dysfunction through direct and indirect lung injury, leading to chemogenic pulmonary edema and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The mechanism of its toxic injury is complex, and the fatality rate of patients increases significantly once ARDS occurs. In this paper, the patient with acute and severe ammonia-induced intoxication was successfully treated by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) combined with fiberoptic bronchoscopy and other critical technologies, and achieved good results. By analyzing the diagnosis and treatment process of severe ammonia-induced intoxication complicated with ARDS patients, this paper summarizes the clinical characteristics of ammonia-induced intoxication injury, and the application opportunities of ECMO and various critical medical technologies, so as to facilitate the efficient intervention and treatment of ammonia-induced intoxication according to the clinical opportunity and improve the survival rate of patients.