… of nerve agents, the search for medical decontamination … of medical decontamination
countermeasures to nerve agent … A burn caused by a blister agent is much slower to heal than …

… chemical warfare agents during the 1983–1988 attacks (with or without health problems), to
attend for a medical … to an alkylating agent (blistering) based on a history of blistering of the …

… (some of which have never been classified as warfare agents… are made to a medical community
that is anxious to apply the … The incapacitating effects of mustard gas, including blistering …

… advance and propose that medical countermeasures against CWAs … blister agent used in
World War I, or nerve agents, discovered just before the start and developed during World War …

… used chemical weapon was the blistering agent mustard gas (… This chemical is a potent
vesicating chemical warfare agent, … Compound screening by the US Medical Chemical Defense …

… used as a vesicant chemical warfare agent. To investigate … the effects on chemical casualties
in the Iran-Iraq War. The … the blistering agent most commonly associated with warfare. …

… chemical warfare agents occurred in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan. Iraq used chemical
… Blister agents, or mustard agents, are chemical substances that get their name from wounds …

… against chemical warfare agents but are only an interim solution to the need for combined
chemical … of nerve and blister agents and cyanide (Figure 16-27). The kit is used after a …

… These facts lead to the recommendation that medical and … chemical weapons stockpile
sites receive training in management of medical emergencies involving nerve and blister agents …

… medical aspects of chemical warfare.' The highly effective chemical warfare agents, known
as vesicants, or blistering agents are responsible for most of the difficult problems of civilian …