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http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.2013.17.4.18

A Study on the Mortality in Oxygen and Toxic Gas Concentration According using Experimental Animals  

Kim, Hyeon-Yeong (Occupational Safety & Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.17, no.4, 2013 , pp. 18-25 More about this Journal
Abstract
It may occur health hazards or death by suffocation or acute poisoning in case of oxygen deficiency in ambient or exposure to harmful gas. As a part of accident prevention, we studied the change of activity and lethal dose by changing the concentration of several hazardous gas with inhalation exposure chamber and laboratory animals. We investigated the lethality and motility change during either the 4 hrs whole body exposure to oxygen, nitrogen, toluene, $H_2S$, CO and 48 recovery. As results, it is estimated that 5% oxygen concentration as lethal concentration and 5.5% as $LC_{50}$ (rat, 4 hrs) with statistics for dose-response. The results of lethality in oxygen deficient condition (approximately 6%), the lethalities were 40%, 20% with 20 ppm $H_2S$, 600 ppm CO respectively, and was not increased the lethality with 8% CO. Thus, it was confirmed that the $H_2S$, CO had influence to lethal dose, while toluene had low fluence.
Keywords
Oxygen concentration; $LC_{50}$; Anoxia; Toluene; $H_2S$; CO;
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