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Article: Cyanide Toxicity in Smoke Inhalation Victims - a Deadly but Treatable Poison.
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- August 18, 2009
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New pre-hospital care treatments for first responders and emergency medical personnel could drastically reduce smoke inhalation deaths.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- "If commercial flying had as many civilian fatalities as those relating to smoke and fire, there would be a public revolt," said Rob Schnepp, CPTC president and assistant chief of special operations for the Alameda County Fire Department in California. "The numbers aren't going down, and this tells me that we aren't addressing the problem adequately. A 2006 NFPA study reveals 87-percent of people who died in fires had toxic blood concentrations of cyanide -- these victims died from breathing ...