Medical aspects of chemical and biological warfare

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 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. Long­Term 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