Citation

Cox MJ, Hwang JC, Himel HN, Edlich RF. Am. J. Emerg. Med. 1996; 14(1): 39-42.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8630153

Abstract

This report describes the case of a 13-year-old boy who suffered severe burns with inhalation injury during the recreational use of gasoline. Gasoline sniffing is a popular form of solvent abuse for young children and adolescents in isolated, rural communities. In addition to the neurological and physiological complications of gasoline inhalation, gasoline sniffers face the significant threat of severe burn injury or death resulting from ignition of the gasoline vapor as well as from extensive physical contact with the constituents of liquid gasoline.

Language: en