| Document ID (ISN) | 19533 |
| CIS number |
73-157 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0041-5782 - Ugeskrift for Læger |
| Year |
1972 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Fallentin B., Fogh A., Frost J. |
| Title |
Nitrous gas poisoning during silo filling - Silo-filler's disease |
| Original title |
Forgiftning med nitrøse gasser ved ensilering - Silo-filler's disease [in Danish] |
| Bibliographic information |
10 Apr. 1972, Vol.134, No.15, p.767-771. 25 ref. |
| Abstract |
Following a brief review of the literature on severe or fatal poisoning due to silage (carbon dioxide, nitrous gases), the authors report on a case observed in Denmark in which a young agricultural worker who was required to enter a silo which had been filled with rye grass the previous day, was severely poisoned and, in spite of hospital treatment, died 41h later. Reference is made to similar cases and the related published data, and the considerable nitrogen-accumulation potential of certain vegetables is mentioned; these not only bind atmospheric nitrogen but, in view of modern agricultural techniques, contain increasingly large quantities of nitrogenous fertiliser. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
forage processing; acute poisoning; agriculture; fodder silos; nitrogen oxides |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
carbon dioxide; nitrogen; fatalities; fertilizers; accident descriptions; work in confined spaces |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Chemical safety
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Agriculture
Inorganic substances
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