Party bubbles: Friend or foe? A conjunctival burn in a paediatric emergency department

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 314-315

  Löllgen, Ruth M ^a,b   Lu, Vicky Hsin Ju ^a,c   Middlebrook, Lauren ^a   Gunja, Naren ^a,b   Mccaskill, Mary ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLLAGEN; SOAP; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRACAINE; ALKALI; DETERGENT;

ALKALINITY; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CAUSTIC BURN; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE BURN; EYE IRRITATION; EYE LAVAGE; EYE LAVAGE DEVICE; HUMAN; LUBRICATION; PEDIATRICS; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; MEDICAL STAFF;

ALKALIES; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CONJUNCTIVA; DETERGENTS; EYE BURNS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84901820209     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12228     Document Type: Article

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