Field Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties

This resource provides guidance on immediate field response to a chemical or biological attack. In addition to describing individual agents and their countermeasures, this handbook includes detailed procedures for performing triage and patient decontamination, including handling exposed military working dogs. The handbook serves as a guide for conventional forward-deployed medical elements providing health service support to chemical and biological casualties. This handbook will primarily appeal to military physicians, especially those deployed in ground based operations.  Throughout the world, nationas and terrorists are attemtping to produce, or have already produced, agents of chemical and biological warfare and the means to employ them.  These areas and enviornments may also be affected by these elements and this resource may be helpful to hospital teams and Emergency Room (ER) staffs that are impacted from these casualties in local communities, near or a distance from an actual battlefield, resulting from an increase in terrorist groups and government access to these harmful  toxins.  Meidcal school students, especially those tasked to internships at emergency rooms in large cities or foreign deployments may be interested in this volume.  Related products:Airbone Hazards Related to Deployment is available here: http://https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-023-00154-5Field Operations Guide for Disaster Assessment and Response is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/001-001-00680-7USAMRIID\'s Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook, 8th edition -- Updated edition in year 2016 can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-020-01635-7Army Chemical Review: The Professional Bulletin of the Chemical Corps --print journal subscription --sign up to subscribe to never miss an issue here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/708-067-00000-8?ctid=