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The changes of gasoline compounds in blood in a case of gasoline intoxication
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Journal of Toxicology. Clinical Toxicology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 44 year-old man, found in his gasoline vapor filled car, died of multiple organ failure on d 9. Blood samples from d 2-7 were analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The estimated half-lives of gasoline, toluene, ethylbenzene, m,p-xylene, and o-xylene were 16.9, 21.4, 27.5, 32.8, and 25.8 h respectively. The estimated initial gasoline concentration in blood was 247 micrograms/ml.