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September 1, 2001
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Hydrofluoric acid burn therapy
As a clinician and researcher who has treated many cases of hydrofluoric acid burns over the past 30 plus years, and acted as a consultant to Honeywell, the world's largest producer of hydrofluoric acid, I was most distressed to read the statements made by Robert Cox, M.D., in the DERMATOLOGY TIMES article "Simplest therapy works for hydrofluoric acid burns" (December 1999).
HF is an extremely important industrial chemical, and has a great potential for tissue damage in human exposure. It has been reported that as little as 10 ml of anhydrous HF spilled on the human body is sufficient to bind all the calcium in an average 165-- pound adult human. This ...
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