Chemical warfare agents

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 239-247

  Shenoi, Rohit ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADRENALIN; AMMONIA; AMYL NITRITE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDOTE; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; ATROPINE; BACITRACIN; BENZODIAZEPINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; CYANIDE; DIAZEPAM; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MONTELUKAST; MYDRIATIC AGENT; NERVE GAS; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PRALIDOXIME CHLORIDE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; SODIUM NITRITE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; STEROID; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; ZAFIRLUKAST;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CYANIDE POISONING; DISASTER PLANNING; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DRUG MECHANISM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EYE TOXICITY; HUMAN; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TOXICITY; TERRORISM; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0036968630     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1522-8401(02)90036-4     Document Type: Article

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