The impact of catalytic converters on motor vehicle exhaust gas suicides

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 65-67

  Routley, Virginia H ^a   Ozanne Smith, Joan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD LEVEL; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CATALYTIC CONVERTER; DATA BASE; EXHAUST GAS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 0032545806     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb126713.x     Document Type: Article

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