Mass chemical casualties: Treatment of 41 patients with burns by anhydrous ammonia

Burns

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1360-1367

  Zhang, Fang ^a   Zheng, Xing Feng ^a,b   Ma, Bing ^a   Fan, Xiao Ming ^a   Wang, Guang Yi ^a   Xia, Zhao Fan ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PLA Nanjing Military Area Command   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia burns; Emergency management; Evacuation; Inhalation injury; Triage

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANHYDROUS AMMONIA; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; BODY SURFACE; BURNING SENSATION; CHEMICAL ACCIDENT; CHEMICAL BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EYE IRRITATION; FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIRST AID; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LUNG BURN; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MASS DISASTER; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PHOTOPHOBIA; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SKIN ULCER; SORE THROAT; BURN UNIT; BURNS, CHEMICAL; BURNS, INHALATION; CHINA; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AMMONIA; BURN UNITS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; BURNS, INHALATION; CHINA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940448976     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2015.02.016     Document Type: Article

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