Emergency treatment of eye burns: Which rinsing solution should we choose?

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 845-854

  Rihawi, S ^a   Frentz, M ^b   Schrage, N F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b Aachener Centrum für Technologietransfer   (Germany)

^c Augenklinik Köln Merheim ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkali; Amphoters; Buffer; Burn; Emergency; First aid; Rinsing

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; BORIC ACID; BUFFER; CEDERROTH; CHLORIDE ION; DIPHOTERINE; DISODIUM HYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; GLYCINE; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; PREVIN; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SODIUM ION; TAP WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKALINITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA BURN; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTHELIUM; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE BURN; FILTER; FOLLOW UP; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PAPER; PH ELECTRODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TITRIMETRY;

ANIMALS; BUFFERS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EYE BURNS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRRIGATION; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MICROELECTRODES; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RABBITS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; WATER;

EID: 33746286436     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0034-3     Document Type: Article

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