Treating CS gas injuries to the eye
- 30 September 1995
- Vol. 311 (7009) , 871
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7009.871
Abstract
Exposure at close range is particularly dangerous EDITOR,--Jean-Paul Yih's editorial on injuries to the eye caused by O-chlorobenzylidene malono-nitrile (CS) gas, or tear gas, draws attention to the short term effects of the gas on the eye and suggests that such injuries may well be a future problem as individual police officers in Britain will soon be carrying pocket aerosols of CS gas.1 Yih implies that the ocular toxicity of CS gas is …This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: