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Increasing the environmental sustainability of operating rooms in Canada: an evidence-informed guideline for policy. [PDF]

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Inhalants

Critical Care Clinics, 2021
Toxic inhalants include various xenobiotics. Irritants cause upper and lower respiratory tract injuries. Highly water-soluble agents injure the upper respiratory tract, while low water-soluble inhalants injure the lower track. Asphyxiants are divided into simple asphyxiants and chemical asphyxiants.
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Inhalation Injury: Smoke Inhalation

The American Journal of Nursing, 1980
noxious gases and particles which can produce such symptoms as hypoxemia, as well as orolaryngeal, tracheal, and pulmonary irritation and damage. Some of these gases are systemically toxic and some are toxic only to the lungs. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a systemically toxic gas produced from combustion; it is not a pulmonary irritant.
S F, Gaston, L L, Schumann
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Smoke Inhalation

Clinical Techniques in Small Animal Practice, 2006
Unfortunately, fires are common events both in urban and rural portions of the United States. Smoke inhalation is the leading fire-related cause of death. The elemental combustion products of fire are light, heat, and smoke. Smoke is a very complex mixture of potentially harmful substances.
Kevin T, Fitzgerald, Aryn A, Flood
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Ammonia Inhalation

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1985
Because of the widespread use of ammonia in industry and agriculture there is a growing opportunity for ammonia burns to occur. Two fatal cases are presented. The injury is thermal as well as chemical, to skin, eyes, airway and lungs. Prompt (5-10 seconds) irrigation of the eyes is required, and immediate treatment of airway and pulmonary injuries ...
R, Arwood, J, Hammond, G G, Ward
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