Clinical features of burn due to hot slaked lime (hot calcium hydroxide)
- Author:
Tuan Ngoc Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
burn
- MeSH:
burns;
diagnosis
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
1998;353(8):47-48
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A study on 103 patients with burn due to hot slake lime, ages of 16-65 in the national institute of burn during 1994-1997 has shown that calcium hydroxide can permeat deeply in to the burn region (calcium concentration in burn fluid and burn tissues). Burn occurred frequently in the lower limbs with complex of deep and surface burn, severe edema and wetting necrosis. P. aeruginosa was main cause of septicemia. The clinical progress of patients with burn area of 40% and deep burn area of 6% were typically.
