Fatal inhalation injury following an industrial accident involving acetic anhydride.
A 22-year-old man sustained 35 per cent burns to his skin and an inhalation injury in an industrial accident involving acetic anhydride. Although the skin burns healed following irrigation and conservative treatment, the inhalation injury proved fatal.
Sinclair
J S
JS
Burns Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
McManus
D T
DT
O'Hara
M D
MD
Millar
R
R
D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D000089:Acetic Anhydrides; D000328:Adult; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002059:Burns, Inhalation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
D000089:Acetic Anhydrides; C031800:acetic anhydride