🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes 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 …
🕖 Reading Time, 9 minutes 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 …
🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes 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. …
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. 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Guinea Pigs Nerve …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes 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 …
If you are going to carry a tourniquet, we feel two is the minimum load-out carried on the body. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The best data available indicates a 70% …