TOX TABLES
Hydrofluoric acid burns
IMPORTANT SHIT
Weak acid penetrates tissue >> Liquefactive necrosis.
Binds calcium >> Hypocalcaemia
Binds calcium >> Hypocalcaemia
SPECIFIC ANTIDOTE
Calcium gluconate (Not calcium chloride - its bad)
- Inject locally like local anaesthetic - 1mL/cm2
- Intraarterial
- IV
- Nebulised
- Everywhere