Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon

Chlorine gas represents a hazardous material threat from industrial accidents and as a terrorist weapon. This review will summarize recent events involving chlorine disasters and its use by terrorists, discuss pre-hospital considerations and suggest strategies for the initial management for acute ch...

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Autores principales: Jones, Robert, Wills, Brandon, Kang, Christopher
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2010
Materias:
Toxicology/Critical Care
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20823965
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spelling pubmed-29086502010-09-07 Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon Jones, Robert Wills, Brandon Kang, Christopher West J Emerg Med Toxicology/Critical Care Chlorine gas represents a hazardous material threat from industrial accidents and as a terrorist weapon. This review will summarize recent events involving chlorine disasters and its use by terrorists, discuss pre-hospital considerations and suggest strategies for the initial management for acute chlorine exposure events. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2010-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2908650/ /pubmed/20823965 Text en Copyright © 2010 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon
title Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon
title_full Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon
title_fullStr Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon
title_full_unstemmed Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon
title_short Chlorine Gas: An Evolving Hazardous Material Threat and Unconventional Weapon
title_sort chlorine gas: an evolving hazardous material threat and unconventional weapon
topic Toxicology/Critical Care
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20823965
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