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EVERETT IDRIS EVANS, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;62(3):335-349.

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THERMAL injury can be induced slowly or rapidly, depending on the intensity of the source. In peacetime, most burns result from exposure to low temperatures acting over a relatively long time; thus burns from hot water or steam are inflicted at temperatures ranging from 60 to 120 C. over periods of approximately a minute down to only a few seconds. Secondary burns from actual flame are usually deep because the temperature is high (300 to 400 C.) and in most instances the exposure time has been at least several seconds.

In modern warfare when certain high explosives burst within a confined space, as on naval vessels, and especially with the explosion of atomic bombs, temperatures of exceedingly high order are achieved, so that a new type of thermal injury, the "flash burn," is made possible. An atomic bomb explosion releases enormous quantities of energy as blast, radiation (gamma and neutron) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
RICHMOND, VA.

From the Department of Surgery: Professor of Surgery and Director, Surgical Research Laboratories, Medical College of Virginia; Chairman, Subcommittee on Burns, and Member, Committee on Surgery and Committee on Atomic Casualties, National Research Council; Surgical Consultant, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (Far East Command), Tokyo, Japan.

Footnotes
These studies were carried out under a grant from the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army.

Read before the Section on Miscellaneous Topics at the Ninety-Ninth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 28, 1950.

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