Perchloroethylene: acute occupational poisoning and a proposal for its replacement with other less toxic substances

• Egile Nagusiak: Pere Sanz-Gallen (Egilea), Albert Sanz-Ribas (Egilea), Gabriel Martí-Amengual (Egilea), Jaime Fernández-Colomé (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Perchloroethylene is used mainly as a solvent in dry cleaning, cleaning of electrical equipment, and degreasing of metal parts. The authors report a case of acute poisoning with perchloroethylene contracted by a maintenance worker when cleaning an electric transformer. Since perchloroethylene may ca...