Toxicology, Survival and Health Hazards of Combustion Products

Overview of combustion toxicology; Fire types and combustion products; Estimating yields and quantities of mass releases of toxic products from fires; Products of combustion and toxicity from specific types of fires; Generation, sampling and quantification of toxic combustion products; Dispersion of fire plumes in the atmosphere; Application of animal models and human studies to prediction of combustion toxicity in humans; Haber's law and its application to combustion products; Carbon monoxide; Hydrogen cyanide: physiological effects of acute exposure during fires; Mechanism of action of combustion-derived nanoparticles; Dioxins and other carcingens; irritant gases; Acute effects of combinations of toxicologically active substances and heat on fire victims in buildings and during exposures to outdoor smoke plumes; Treatment of cyanide poisoning associated with fires; Acute lung injury following inhalation of irritant products of combustion; Health effects on groups exposed to wildland and urban fires; Buncefield fire; The World Trade Centre disaster; Providing advice to those exposed to combustion products;

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