Galluccio Steven T, Edwards Nicholas A, Caldicott David Ge, Greenwood John E
Intensive Care Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Crit Care Resusc. 2007 Jun;9(2):178-80.
Methaemoglobinaemia is an important perturbation to recognise, as untreated it may cause severe tissue hypoxia and cell death. We describe a case of methaemoglobinaemia acquired in an unusual manner, during an explosion at an explosives manufacturing plant.
