General guidelines for medically screening mixed population groups potentially exposed to nerve or vesicant agents

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10118904· OSTI ID:10118904

Watson, A P; Munro, N B ^[1]; Sidell, F R ^[2]; Leffingwell, S S ^[3]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
2. Army Medical Research Inst. of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (United States)
3. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA (United States). Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control

A number of state and local planners have requested guidance on screening protocols and have expressed interest in sampling body fluids from exposed or potentially exposed individuals as a means of estimating agent dose. These guidelines have been developed to provide a clear statement that could be used by state and local emergency response personnel in the event of a nerve or vesicant agent incident resulting in off-post contamination; maximum protection from harm is the goal. The assumption is that any population group so exposed would be heterogeneous for age, gender, reproductive status, and state of health.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 10118904
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-12034; ON: DE92006652
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Jan 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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