Points: Ammonia burns of the eye
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Chemical Burns of the Eye
Chemical injuries are increasing in the modern world. Acids and alkalis are the main chemicals implicated. In this review article, the author has outlined the pathogenesis of the damage inflicted by acids as well as alkalis. Emergency treatment has been described as well as treatment to be used in the acute, sub -acute and chronic phases to reduce morbidity in these cases Modern methods of mana...
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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 ...
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THE results of the experimental investigation carried out in the laboratory of the Netherlands Ophthalmic Hospital in Utrecht to test my first clinical findings on the favourable action of " Corvasymton "t in a chemical burn of the eye have already been recorded (Fischer, Hodgson, and Wagenaar, 1950). In view of the favourable result 1 decided to use this drug once again when a patient with a c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.296.6631.1263-i