Year: 2018
Type: Article
Title: Hydrofluoric Acid: Burns and Systemic Toxicity, Protective Measures, Immediate and Hospital Medical Treatment
Author: Bajraktarova-Valjakova, Emilija
Author: Korunoska-Stevkovska, Vesna
Author: Georgieva, Silvana
Author: Ivanovski, Kiro
Author: Bajraktarova-Misevska, Cvetanka
Author: Mijoska, Aneta
Author: Grozdanov, Anita
Abstract: Hydrofluoric acid is a commonly used chemical in many industrial branches, but it can also be found as an ingredient in household products such as cleaning agents. Possessing high corrosive potential, HF acid causes burns and tissue necrosis, while when absorbed and distributed through the bloodstream, its extremely high toxic potential is expressed. Acute symptoms are often followed by pain, particularly in the case of skin burns, which intensiveness does not often correlate with the expressiveness of the clinical findings. Even exposure to low-concentrated solutions or gasses, or low-doses of high-concentrated acid, may provoke delayed systemic disorder which may eventually have a lethal outcome.
Publisher: ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje
Relation: Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/3533
Identifier: 1857-9655
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/3533Identifier: 10.3889/oamjms.2018.429
Identifier: https://id-press.eu/mjms/article/download/oamjms.2018.429/2588Identifier: https://id-press.eu/mjms/article/download/oamjms.2018.429/2679Identifier: 6
Identifier: 11
