Abstract
Current threats to the population at large and the requirement for non-lethal methods of incapacitation are resulting in increased usage of lawful crowd-control agents such as ochlorobenzylidene malonitrile (CS), v-chloroacetophenone (CN) and dibenzoxazepine (CR) [1]. CS gas deployment, used by police forces in the UK since 1996, continues to increase both in the public domain and on NHS premises with 16 trusts admitting those patients in their care had been restrained by police with CS gas [2]. Although safety profiles focus primarily on the transient effects of CS exposure on ocular, oral and respiratory mucous membranes, the dermatologic effects following direct skin contact can be both severe and long lasting. In view of this, physicians should be alert to the clinical effects and recommended methods of treatment of patients exposed to such substances. Our aim is to increase awareness of these injuries and the specific treatment required which contrasts with standard treatments for chemical burns.
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