An internal dose model of incapacitation and lethality risk from inhalation of fire gases

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 347-364

  Stuhmiller, James H ^a,b   Long, Diane W ^a   Stuhmiller, Louise M ^a  

^a Applied Science and Technology   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIC GAS;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; FIRE; GAS POISONING; HUMAN; LETHALITY; LOGLINEAR MODEL; LUNG BURN; LUNG VENTILATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT;

ACROLEIN; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FIRES; GASES; HAPLORHINI; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; RATS; SMOKE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644773456     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370500516010     Document Type: Article

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