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KİMYASAL SAVAŞ AJANLARI

  • Doğaç Niyazi Özüçelik
  • Özgür Karcıoğlu
  • Hakan Topaçoğlu
  • Nazmiye Koyuncu
  • Figen Coşkun

Eurasian J Emerg Med 2005;4(1):28-32

Although United Nations have struggled to ban the chemical warfare agents after their use caused several massacres in the World War 1st, the agents are persistently produced and used throughout the world. The agents keep threatening the lives of millions of people not only in the wartime, but also in the peacetime. Actually, all health facilities including emergency medical services system should take all measures to be prepared for attacks with these agents which are easy to produce and deposit. This review outlines the clinical properties of these agents and the up-to-date management in case of use of such weaponry.

Keywords: Chemical Warfare Agents (NBC), nerve agents, decontamination