Second Edition
by John R. Cashman
Emergency Response Handbook for Chemical and Biological Agents and Weapons maintains its reputation as a comprehensive training manual for emergency responders to incidents involving nuclear, biological, and chemical materials.
Emergency Response Handbook for Chemical and Biological Agents and Weapons:
- Draws lessons from case studies involving chlorine gas, anthrax, ricin, viral hemorrhagic fevers, and more
- Offers actual on-site response techniques and advice from experts on infectious diseases, hazardous materials and cleanup, law enforcement/safety, and emergency medical
- Compiles vital information on toxicology, physicochemical properties, pharmacokinetics, symptoms, and infective doses
- Provides access to current data, field-ready resources, and techniques for expediting diagnosis and decontamination
- Examines new prophylactic measures and countermeasures to exposure, including antidotes and drugs treatments
Contents
- January 6, 2005: A Gas Attack on Home Ground
- The Massacre at Columbine High School
- Guide to Chemical and Biological Agent Response
- Introduction to Biological Agents and Toxins
- Guides for Emergency Response: Biological Agent or Weapons
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Glanders (includes Melioidosis)
- Plague
- Q Fever
- Ricin
- Staphylococcal Enterotoxin (SEB)
- Smallpox (Variola) 171
- Mycotoxins/T-2
- Tularemia
- Viral Encephalitus
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs)
- Guides for Emergency Response: Chemical Agents and Weapons
- Arsenical Vesicants including Ethyldichloroarsine (ED) Methyldichloroarsine (MD) Phenyldichloroarsine (PD)
- Arsine
- Cyanogen Chloride (CK)
- Diphosgene & Phosgene
- Distilled Mustard (H, HD)
- Blood Agent Hydrogen Cyanide (AC): Blood Agent
- Blister Agent Lewisite (L) and Blister Agent Mustard-Lewisite Mixture (HL)
- Nerve Agent GF (GF)
- Nerve Agent Sarin (GB)
- Nerve Agent Soman (GD)
- Nerve Agent Tabun (GA)
- Nerve Agent VX (VX)
- Agent Nitrogen Mustard (HN-1), Nitrogen Mustard (HN-2), and Nitrogen Mustard (HN-3)
Index
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