Overview
- Helps expedite solutions to decrease morbidity and mortality
- Includes dozens of high quality photographs and illustrations
- Aids in industrial hygiene, dermatology, occupational physicians, and those involved in the public health arena
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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About this book
The skin is the first line of defense against chemical warfare agents including nerve agents and toxic industrial chemicals, providing a possible barrier or delay to systemic distribution. However, some chemicals act directly on the skin including vesicants sulfur mustard and corrosive compounds such as strong acids or bases, and do not have to gain access to systemic circulation to cause extensive skin damage. Early and rapid skin decontamination is extremely important following exposure to chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals because it decreases serious skin damage to the patient and, potentially, their doctor.
This multi-authored international text pulls together a century of decontamination research and helps the reader expedite solutions that will decrease morbidity and mortality. Complete with dozens of hiqh quality photographs and illustrations, Skin Decontamination aids industrial hygiene, dermatology, occupational physicians and thoseinvolved in the public health arena.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hanjiang Zhu, PhD
University of California San Francisco, Dermatology
Department of Dermatology
2340 Sutter Street N461
San Francisco, CA 94143/0989
USA
Tel: 408-829-3797
Fax: 415-753-5304
sunnie.zhu@foxmail.com
Howard I. Maibach, MD
Professor, Dermatologist
University of California San FranciscoDepartment of Dermatology2340 Sutter Street N461
San Francisco, CA 94143/0989
USA
Tel: (415)673-9693
Fax: (415) 673-3533
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Skin Decontamination
Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Clinical Research Guide
Editors: Hanjiang Zhu, Howard I. Maibach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24009-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24008-0Published: 11 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24011-0Published: 12 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24009-7Published: 26 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 280
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dermatology