Death from petrol inhalation after an armoured vehicle rollover
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Death from petrol inhalation after an armoured vehicle rollover.
A case is reported of cardiac arrest in a young man after an armoured vehicle rollover accident. The proposed mechanism of death is myocardial sensitisation to endogenous catecholamines after exposure to petroleum fuel.
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.20.5.494