Ammonia

Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 583-584

  Meulenbelt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acute lung injury (ALI); ammonia; bronchospasms; cold burns; corrosive agent; lacrimation; oesophagus injury; respiratory failure; stomach injury

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; MYDRIATIC AGENT;

ALKALINITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CORROSION; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; EVAPORATION; EYE BURN; EYE INFECTION; EYE IRRITATION; GASTRITIS; HEADACHE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INGESTION; LACRIMATION; LARYNX EDEMA; LAVAGE; LUNG EDEMA; MUCOSA; MUCUS SECRETION; NAUSEA; NOSE SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SKIN INJURY; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOM; TOXICOKINETICS; TRACHEOSTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 35449001252     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2007.08.004     Document Type: Review

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