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The phosphorous burn--a preliminary comparative experimental study of various forms of treatment
1Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
Abstract:
White phosphorous burns were inflicted on 44 Wistar (CR) rats. All animals of the control (C1) group (untreated white phosphorous burns) died within 48 h while those of the control (C2) group (wound only, no white phosphorous burns) survived at least 6 days. Copper sulphate, either as a solution or as an emulsion, proved lethal even without white phosphorous burns. Water irrigation alone proved to be a life-saving procedure for the white phosphorous burned rats.