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Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorist Incidents: Interim Report on Current Capabilities (1998)
Commission on Life Sciences (CLS)

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Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorist Incidents: Interim Report on Current Capabilities

Contents

 

  

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  

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INTRODUCTION

  

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 Legislative Background,

  

10
   

 Charge to the Committee,

  

11
   

 Assumptions and Parameters of This Report,

  

12

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CURRENT CIVILIAN CAPABILITIES

  

15
   

 Preincident Intelligence,

  

17
   

 Detection and Measurement of Agents in the Environment,

  

18
   

 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE),

  

21
   

 Safe and Effective Patient Extraction,

  

24
   

 Methods for Recognizing Signs and Symptoms in Victims/Patients,

  

24
   

 Detection and Measurement of Agent Exposure in Clinical Samples from Patients,

  

25
   

 Methods for Recognizing Covert Exposure of a Population,

  

27
   

 Mass-Casualty Triage Techniques/Procedures,

  

30
   

 Methods for Decontaminating Exposed Individuals,

  

31
   

 Availability, Safety, and Efficacy of Drugs and Other Therapies,

  

32
   

 Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Psychological Effects,

  

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