Chemical burns causing systemic toxicity.

Chemical Ocular Burns - Preamble

Chemical burns beneath tourniquets.

Hand chemical burns.

There is a vast and ever-expanding variety of potentially harmful chemicals in the military, industrial, and domestic landscape. Chemical burns make up a small proportion of all skin burns, yet they can cause substantial morbidity and mortality. Additionally, the hand and upper extremity are the most frequently involved parts of the body in chemical burns, and therefore these injuries may lead ...

Chemical burns to the eye.

SIR, Mr S J Morgan emphasises the need to distinguish between ammonia and antipersonnel or antirape sprays such as CS and Mace.' From personal experience over the past 18 months I can describe a very simple and rapid method of differentiation. In a series of 17 patients who had been assaulted with a pungent fluid one had a strong smell of ammonia on his clothes and clinically had features of a ...

Chemical burns: pathophysiology and treatment.

Chemical burns continue to pose a variety of dilemmas to the clinician managing such cases. Assessment of burn depth is often difficult and the decision whether to excise the wound early is not always clear-cut. In this updated review, common agents are classified and the basic principles of management and specific recommendations are examined. The complications arising from exposure to these c...