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Several patients injured in the Grenfell Tower fire are deliberately being kept unconscious to help them recover from the effects of smoke inhalation, a senior doctor has said.

Duncan Bew, clinical director of the major trauma centre at King's College Hospital, said staff expected to see a range of injuries, including "people falling from a height, from jumping from windows", as well as those with burns and suffering from smoke inhalation.

He said some had clung to banisters to feel their way down 20 flights of stairs in acrid smoke.

Twelve patients were admitted to the south London hospital immediately after the fire on Wednesday morning. Seven are still receiving treatment.

Mr Bew said his colleagues were expecting to receive hundreds of patients on the night of the blaze.

"As time went on and we realised that we weren't going to receive those casualties, it was very sad," he said.

"The people at the scene had stayed in their flats because that's what they were told to do, but the flames were coming up the external panels, to their windows and to their homes."

Some survivors may take weeks and months to recover from physical injuries, Mr Bew said, but he believes the psychological impact of the disaster may take even longer to get over.

Mr Bew said he believed some of his patients went back into the building to save other families after escaping with their own.

"People went into the stairwells and went into toxic smoke," he said. "Some of them went down 20 flights of stairs. There was this intense heat and they were feeling their way down banisters.

"I think people who escaped felt that they were going to die and that the only way to stay alive was to go through the smoke."

At least after the disaster, although the number is expected to rise. Only five victims have been formally identified.