FATAL INHALATION INJURY FOLLOWING AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT INVOLVING ACETIC-ANHYDRIDE

Authors
SINCLAIR JS MCMANUS DT OHARA MD MILLAR R
Citation
Js. Sinclair et al., FATAL INHALATION INJURY FOLLOWING AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT INVOLVING ACETIC-ANHYDRIDE, Burns, 20(5), 1994, pp. 469-470
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases","Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Burns → ACNP
ISSN journal
03054179
Volume
20
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
469 - 470
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4179(1994)20:5<469:FIIFAI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A 22-year-old man sustained 35 per cent burns to his skin and an inhal ation injury in an industrial accident involving acetic anhydride. Alt hough the skin burns healed following irrigation and conservative trea tment, the inhalation injury proved fatal.