TECC + CBRN = Tactical CBRN Preview #1

This is a preview of the Crisis Medicine Tactical-CBRN course.

Chemical warfare isn’t just something that happened in 1917. Though stockpiled by the Nazis during WW2, the first battlefield use of nerve agents didn’t occur until the Iran – Iraq war in the 1980s.

• In 1995 a doomsday cult used dilute sarin nerve agent in two attacks in Japan.
• Most recently, both nerve agents and chlorine gas barrel bombs have been deployed during the conflict in Syria.
• ISIL used mustard agents against Kurds in Iraq, as well as during the siege on Mosul.
• All varieties of chemical warfare agents have been placed in rockets, bombs, and both mortar and artillery shells. This makes them a very portable and convenient IED risk.
• The DOD BioDefense section is amazed terrorists haven’t made more use of biological weapons with their reduced cost.
• In 2004 a UK terrorist cell was caught collecting radioactive material out of thousands of smoke detectors in preparation for a radiologic dispersion device.

This course provides you a realistic understanding of both the threats and their treatments.