Comparison of emergency eye-wash products in burned porcine eyes

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 308-313

  Kompa, Sirpa ^a   Scharek, Belinda ^a   Tympner, Jorg ^a   Wustemeyer, Henrike ^a   Schrage, Norbert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; AQSIA; BALANCED SALT SOLUTION; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; BUFFER; CHLORIDE; EYE DROPS; HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; PHOSPHATE; PREVIN; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; TAP WATER;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA BURN; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DILUTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENUCLEATION; EYE BURN; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEROSMOLARITY; LAVAGE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STROMA; SWINE; TIME; TITRIMETRY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BUFFERS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEA; CORNEAL EDEMA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EYE BURNS; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SWINE;

EID: 0036943707     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-001-0406-2     Document Type: Article

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