Burst lung

Two cases of accidental thionyl chloride exposure resulting in lung injury that varied from relatively mild and reversible interstitial lung disease to a severe form of bronchiolitis obliterans have recently been reported. In the first case a 30-year-old worker was exposed when a thionyl chloride tank burst in an open space. The worker was asymptomatic until dyspnea gradually developed 2 weeks after his exposure. The patient was mildly dyspneic with 22 respirations per minute, and lung function... 

Although nonflammable, CIF3 gas is dangerously reactive. It reacts explosively with water and violently with most common substances. Organic materials burst into flame in contact with the liquid. The gas is a severe irritant to the eyes, nose, throat and skin. Inhalation can cause lung damage. The hquid is dangerously corrosive to skin. 

Sodium is a silver-colored metal that reacts violently with water. Even the humidity in the air can make sodium burst into flames. As a precaution, pure sodium metal is often stored in oil to keep the water in the air from getting to its surface. Chlorine, on the other hand, is a pale, greenish-colored gas that is so poisonous it was used as a chemical weapon in World War I. When it is inhaled, chlorine gas causes chest pains and a burning sensation in the throat. It can destroy lung tissue and victims die of suffocation because they cannot breathe. 

I covered the cavity with my body and thought. I d like to read those notebooks if I have a moment, but the next breath I took was fire. I gasped, and my mouth was dry heat and I gasped again, but this time my throat closed up and my lungs ached and heaved, and I tried to open my mouth but my head was black and I knew it would burst apart, blood, tissue, bone. 

The principal attractions of one-dimensional EDMs are their ability to implement time dependence of the aerosol properties at the respiratory tract entrance (e.g., variations in aerosol concentration and size associated with a burst, or bolus, of inhaled particles), the ease with which simple models of axial dispersion can be incorporated, as well as their ability to include time dependence of the lung geometry associated with lung inflation during inhalation [39-41]. When any of these effects are deemed important, then one-dimensional EDMs are advantageous over the other simpler approaches we have considered thus far. 

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