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Toxicity Evaluation of Effluent Gases from a Residental Fire by Rats  

Kim, Hong (호서대학교 환경안전공학부)
Kang, Young-Goo (호서대학교 환경안전공학부)
Kim, Dong-Hyun (단국대학교병원 산업의학과)
Jung, Ki-Chang (호서대학교 환경안전공학부)
Lee, Chang-Seop (경기도 소방학교)
Kim, Woon-Hyung (경민대학 소방과학과)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.16, no.3, 2002 , pp. 12-15 More about this Journal
Abstract
It has long been recognized that exposure to fire-induced toxic gases is a fatal hazard confront-ing people in fires. In this study, an indoor fire experiment was conducted in an unoccupied residential building located in An-san city, Kyoung-gi province, and the composition of effluent gases, which include CO, $CO_2$, $O_2$, $SO_2$, NO and $NO_2$, were measured by a gas analyzer. A group of lab rats were exposed to the toxic gases released from fire, and the blood samples of the rats were gathered every 2 minutes. A toxicity evaluation was conducted by analyzing the concentrations of Glucose, AST(GOT), ALT(GPT), CBC Count and CO(carboxy)-Hb in the blood samples. Shown from the analysis is the does-response relationship between the CO concentration that rats were exposed to and the CO-Hb concentration in rat blood.
Keywords
Toxicity; Residential fire; Exposed; Blood and Serum; CO(carboxy)-Hb;
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