Resuscitation
Volume 35, Issue 1 , Pages 33-36 , August 1997

Fatal pulmonary edema after nitric acid inhalation

  • Andreas Bur

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, University Clinics, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Austria
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  • Andreas Wagner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, University Clinics, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Austria
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  • Martin Röggla

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, University Clinics, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Austria
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  • Andrea Berzlanovic

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Harald Herkner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, University Clinics, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Austria
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  • Fritz Sterz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, University Clinics, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +431 40400 1964; fax: +431 40400 1965; e-mail: Frifz.Sterz@AKH-Wien.ac.at
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  • Anton N Laggner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, University Clinics, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Austria

Received 14 October 1996 ,Revised 17 March 1997 ,Accepted 27 March 1997.

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