A Turkish Medical Rescue Team against Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 94-96

  Kenar, Levent ^a   Karayilanoǧlu, Turan ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; ATROPINE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; OBIDOXIME; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; SODIUM NITRITE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE;

ATOMIC BOMB; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BREATHING; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CIRCULATION; COOPERATION; FIRST AID; HUMAN; MASK; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL DISCIPLINES; PHYSICIAN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1442355604     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.2.94     Document Type: Review

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