Biowarfare and Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism is not only a reality of the times in which we live but bioweapons have been used for centuries. Critical care physicians play a major role in the recognition of and response to a bioterrorism attack. Critical care clinicians must be familiar with the diagnosis and management of the mos...

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Autor principal: Christian, Michael D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23830660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2013.03.015
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description Bioterrorism is not only a reality of the times in which we live but bioweapons have been used for centuries. Critical care physicians play a major role in the recognition of and response to a bioterrorism attack. Critical care clinicians must be familiar with the diagnosis and management of the most likely bioterrorism agents, and also be adequately prepared to manage a mass casualty situation. This article reviews the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the most likely agents of biowarfare and bioterrorism.
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spelling pubmed-71273452020-04-08 Biowarfare and Bioterrorism Christian, Michael D. Crit Care Clin Article Bioterrorism is not only a reality of the times in which we live but bioweapons have been used for centuries. Critical care physicians play a major role in the recognition of and response to a bioterrorism attack. Critical care clinicians must be familiar with the diagnosis and management of the most likely bioterrorism agents, and also be adequately prepared to manage a mass casualty situation. This article reviews the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the most likely agents of biowarfare and bioterrorism. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2013-07 2013-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7127345/ /pubmed/23830660 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2013.03.015 Text en Crown copyright © 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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