Citation

Pham T, Palmieri TL, Greenhalgh DG. J. Burn Care Rehabil. 2001; 22(3): 246-248.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11403249

Abstract

Chemical burn injuries commonly occur at the workplace and can be caused by a variety of agents. Sodium azide is a volatile compound used in the industrial setting and it is also a constituent of car airbags. The known toxic effects of sodium azide include hypotension, bradycardia, and headaches. At the cellular level, it inhibits of ATP production by blocking the respiratory oxidation cascade. In the burn literature only one previous report documents a sodium azide hand burn caused by airbag malfunction. We report a case of massive exposure and resultant systemic toxicity from a sodium azide canister explosion.

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