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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Chemical Burns



- See: Burn Management:

- Discussion:
    - treatment: copious saline irrigation;
    - hydrofluoric acid
          - severe pain
          - note that this chemical may be found in hydraulic oil;
          - treatment subcutaneous 10% calcium gluconate
    - white phosphorous
          - addition of 1% copper sulfate to the wound helps to neutralize the phosphorous and assists
                with identification of the phorous particles;
          - copper sulfate has systemic toxicity and therefore its application should be limited;





     












Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.