Recognition of Chemical-Weapons Attacks The risk of chemical terrorism requires an
effective rapid-triage system for identifying symptoms, likely to have been caused by …

Acute chemical emergencies can occur as a result of an industrial accident, occupational
exposure, a natural disaster, or an act of terrorism. This article reviews empirical principles …

The most comprehensive resource of its kind, Ciottone's Disaster Medicine, 2nd Edition,
thoroughly covers isolated domestic events as well as global disasters and humanitarian …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined hospital preparedness for incidents involving chemical
or biological weapons. METHODS: By using a questionnaire survey of 224 hospital …

Nerve agents (NA) are simple and cheap to produce but can produce casualties on a
massive scale. They have already been employed by terrorist organizations and rogue …

Study Objective: We performed an assessment of hospital preparedness for weapons of
mass destruction (WMD) incidents in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) …

The possibility of terrorists employing chemical, biological, or nuclear/radiological (CBN)
materials has been a concern since 1995 when sarin gas was dispersed in a Tokyo subway …

The United States is under the constant threat of a mass casualty cyanide disaster from
industrial accidents, hazardous material transportation incidents, and deliberate terrorist …

Introduction: Hospitals the world over have been involved in disasters, both internal and
external. These two types of disasters are independent, but not mutually exclusive. Internal …

This paper reviews milestones in antidotal therapies for cyanide (CN) spanning early
remedies, current antidotal systems and research towards next generation therapies. CN …