Textbook of Military Medicine: MEDICAL ASPECTS OF CHEMICAL

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AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE

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Department of Defense

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Contents

Foreword by The Surgeon General xi

Preface xiii

Patient Flow in a Theater of Operations xv

Medical Aftermath of the Persian Gulf War xvi

1. Overview: Defense Against the Effects of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents 1

2. History of Chemical and Biological Warfare: An American Perspective 9

3. Historical Aspects of Medical Defense Against Chemical Warfare 87

4. The Chemical Warfare Threat and the Military Healthcare Provider 111

5. Nerve Agents 129

6. Pretreatment for Nerve Agent Exposure 181

7. Vesicants 197

8. Long-Term Health Effects of Nerve Agents and Mustard 229

9. Toxic Inhalational Injury 247

10. Cyanide Poisoning 271

11. Incapacitating Agents 287

12. Riot Control Agents 307

13. Field Management of Chemical Casualties 325

14. Triage of Chemical Casualties 337

15. Decontamination 351

16. Chemical Defense Equipment 361

17. Healthcare and the Chemical Surety Mission 397

18. Historical Overview of Biological Warfare 415

19. The U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs 425

20. Use of Biological Weapons 437

21. The Biological Warfare Threat 451

22. Anthrax 467

23. Plague 479

24. Tularemia 503

25. Brucellosis 513

26. Q Fever 523

27. Smallpox 539

28. Viral Encephalitides 561

29. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers 591

30. Defense Against Toxin Weapons 603

31. Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B and Related Pyrogenic Toxins 621

32. Ricin Toxin 631

33. Botulinum Toxins 643

34. Trichothecene Mycotoxins 655

35. Medical Challenges in Chemical and Biological Defense for the 21st Century 677

Acronyms and Abbreviations 687

Index 691