Contents
Front Matter
Foreword by The Surgeon General
Preface
Patient Flow in a Theater of Operations
- Overview: Defense Against the Effects of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents
- History of Chemical and Biological Warfare:An American Perspective
- Historical Aspects of Medical Defense Against Chemical Warfare
- The Chemical Warfare Threat and the Military Healthcare Provider
- Nerve Agents
- Pretreatment for Nerve Agent Exposure
- Vesicants
- Long-Term Health Effects of Nerve Agents and Mustard
- Toxic Inhalational Injury
- Cyanide Poisoning
- Incapacitating Agents
- Riot Control Agents
- Field Management of Chemical Casualties
- Triage of Chemical Casualties
- Decontamination
- Chemical Defense Equipment
- Healthcare and the Chemical Surety Mission
- Historical Overview of Biological Warfare
- The U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs
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- The Biological Warfare Threat
- Anthrax
- Plague
- Tularemia
- Brucellosis
- Q Fever
- Smallpox
- Viral Encephalitides
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- Defense Against Toxin Weapons
- Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B and Related Pyrogenic Toxins
- Ricin Toxin
- Botulinum Toxins
- Trichothecene Mycotoxins
- Medical Challenges in Chemical and Biological Defense for the 21st Century
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Index
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