SMOKE TOXICITY AS A SPECIAL DEVELOPING CONDITION IN A MASS FIRE EVENT
Keywords:
smoke inhalation, fire event, burns, poisoning, cyanide, carbon monoxide
Abstract
We present the case of a mass fire event into enclosed space in Bucharest, generating a smoke explosion. We analyzed patient’s lesions and evolution, aiming to appreciate the keystones, key points to learn, and golden standards to establish for fire management, highlighting by molecular docking technique the toxicity of gas resulting from combustion of polymers. Several important lessons were clearly learned from the case, being now constitutive parts of a new concept of intervention, designing and realizing exercises for responders, and ministries with responsibilities to preplan emergency support and evacuation for victims resulting from close space fire events with smoke inhalation, severe poisoning, and extensive burns.
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Luciana Teodora Rotaru, Mihaela Mormoe, Mihai Banicioiu Covei, Renata Maria Varut. SMOKE TOXICITY AS A SPECIAL DEVELOPING CONDITION IN A MASS FIRE EVENT. Med. res. chronicles [Internet]. 2018Jun.30 [cited 2024Nov.29];5(3):224-30. Available from: https://medrech.com/index.php/medrech/article/view/307
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