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Inhalation Injury

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Update 1988

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 5))

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The lungs present a massive interface between the body and its external environment; in man, the area equates roughly to that of a tennis court and is some seventy times the surface area of the skin. This paper confines itself to the early effects of inhaling volatile or gaseous irritants and does not consider the longterm lung damage resulting from repeated inhalation of particulate matter such as silica.

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  1. J. M. Beeley
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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean Louis Vincent (Assistant-Director) (Assistant-Director)

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Beeley, J.M., Clark, R.J. (1988). Inhalation Injury. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) Update 1988. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83392-2_19

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