On March 20,1995, in Tokyo, Japan, a “doomsday cult” called Aum Shinrikyo manufactured and deployed 10 liters of dilute sarin nerve agent in the Tokyo subway system. At that time, the Tokyo subway system was felt to be one of …
The use of chemical warfare agents is not only relegated to WWI: The US Department of Homeland Security – FEMA, Co-TCCC, are both currently working on chemical warfare/agent casualty management guidelines, and the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care published guidelines on …
The AI-2 “aptechka” was an individual CBRN kit issued by the USSR for Civil Defense beginning in the late 1970s in a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack. Aptechka, (аптечка) loosely translated means first-aid kit. The Soviets prepositioned the kits …
Animal models are often used when trying to study the possible effects of a medication or treatment and subsequently extrapolated to humans. Which species is selected depends on what is being studied. Guinea Pigs Nerve agent poisoning effects are often …
In 2017, the CDC issued an emergency use authorization for a new atropine auto-injector manufacturing company because there was a sense there were not enough atropine auto-injectors in the national stockpile. Atropine is the standard drug treatment for nerve agent …
If you are going to carry a tourniquet, we feel two is the minimum load-out carried on the body. The best data available indicates a 70% occlusion rate of a single tourniquet on a volunteer thigh. This successful occlusion can …