Title Improving civilian medical response to chemical or biological terrorist incidents : interim report on current capabilities / Committee on R & D Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Incidents, Division of Health Science[s] Policy, Institute of Medicine [and] Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource Contents Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorist Incidents -- Copyright -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- INTRODUCTION -- CURRENT CIVILIAN CAPABILITIES -- DETECTION -- Detection of Agents in the Environment -- Detection of Agent Exposure in Clinical Samples -- Detection of Covert Exposures of a Population -- PROTECTION -- TREATMENT -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NEEDS -- INTERIM RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND -- CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE -- ASSUMPTIONS AND PARAMETERS OF THIS REPORT 2 Current Civilian Capabilities -- PREINCIDENT INTELLIGENCE -- DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT OF AGENTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT -- Chemical Agents -- Biological Agents -- PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) -- Chemical Agents -- Biological Agents -- SAFE AND EFFECTIVE PATIENT EXTRACTION -- METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS IN VICTIMS/PATIENTS -- DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT OF AGENT EXPOSURE IN CLINICAL SAMPLES FROM PATIENTS -- Chemical Agents -- Nerve Agents -- Vesicants -- Cyanide -- Biological Agents -- METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING COVERT EXPOSURE OF A POPULATION MASS-CASUALTY TRIAGE TECHNIQUES/PROCEDURES -- METHODS FOR DECONTAMINATING EXPOSED INDIVIDUALS -- Chemical Agents -- Biological Agents -- AVAILABILITY, SAFETY, AND EFFICACY OF DRUGS AND OTHER THERAPIES -- Chemical Agents -- Nerve Agents -- Vesicants -- Cyanide -- Biological Agents -- Anthrax -- Brucellosis -- Pneumonic Plague -- Q Fever -- Tularemia -- Smallpox -- Viral Encephalitides -- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Botulinum Toxins -- Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) -- Ricin -- T-2 Mycotoxin -- PREVENTION, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS -- 3 Conclusions and Recommendations RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NEEDS -- INTERIM RECOMMENDATIONS -- References -- APPENDIX A Committee Biographies -- APPENDIX B Committee Meeting Agenda -- APPENDIX C Table of Lethal and Incapacitating Chemical Weapons -- APPENDIX D Centers for Disease Control and Prevention List of Restricted Agents -- VIRUSES -- BACTERIA -- RICKETTSIAE -- FUNGI -- TOXINS -- APPENDIX E Excerpts from the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team Operational System Description -- METROPOLITAN MEDICAL STRIKE TEAM -- MISSION, CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS, AND TEAM ORGANIZATION -- METROPOLITAN MEDICAL STRIKE TEAM -- TEAM ACTIVATION I. INTRODUCTION -- IV. FIELD OPERATIONS GUIDE -- APPENDIX F Excerpts from the National Disaster Medical System Home Page -- OFFICIAL FACT SHEETS FROM NDMS -- DMAT / NDMS / other related links -- NDMS PARTNERS -- THE PURPOSE OF THE NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM -- Major Components of NDMS include -- NDMS LEAD ORGANIZATIONS -- THE NDMS DISASTER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TEAMS -- NDMS STATISTICS -- WHAT IS A DISASTER MORTUARY TEAM (DMORT)? -- WHAT IS A VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TEAM (VMAT)? -- APPENDIX G Military Detection and Monitoring Equipment Summary This interim report focuses on current civilian capabilities rather than ongoing and planned research and development (R & D) programs, which will be addressed in the committee's final report. The interim report thus provides a baseline against which to evaluate the utility of technology and R & D programs. It identifies some general areas in which innovative R & D is clearly needed, and in some cases already underway. Assessment of this work and its applicability to coping with domestic terrorism with constitute the second half of this study and be the focus of the final report Notes Title from caption (viewed February 7, 2002) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Chemical warfare -- Health aspects Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States Civil defense. Biological warfare. Chemical agents (Munitions) Emergency management. Chemical warfare. Bioterrorism. Biological Warfare Chemical Warfare Agents Chemical Warfare Bioterrorism Civil Defense Disaster Planning disaster planning. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement. Chemical warfare Bioterrorism Biological warfare Chemical agents (Munitions) Chemical warfare -- Health aspects Civil defense Emergency management Terrorism -- Government policy SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on R & D Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Incidents. National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. ISBN 0309583942 9780309583947

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