TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Acid burn attacks: looking beneath the surface JO - Journal of Advanced Nursing A1 - Cleary, Michelle A1 - Visentin, Denis C. A1 - West, Sancia A1 - Say, Richard A1 - McLean, Loy A1 - Kornhaber, Rachel SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Acid attacks are deliberate acts of violence that are potentially lethal and may result in significant burns to the surface area of the victim's body (Karunadasa et al., 2010). Such attacks were considered common in the USA and UK in the 1800s (Chowdhury, 2007), but from the 1980s, the reporting of acid attacks increased in southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (Khoshnami, Mohammadi, Rasi, Khankeh, & Arshi, 2017). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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