How would military hospitals cope with a nuclear, biological, or chemical disaster?

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 757-760

  Kenar, Levent ^a   Karayýlanoǧlu, Turan ^a   Gulec, Mahir ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; PROTECTIVE AGENT; VACCINE;

ATOMIC WARFARE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CONTAMINATION; FIRST AID; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REVIEW; ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; TERRORISM; WAR; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; DECONTAMINATION; DISASTER PLANNING; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; NUCLEAR WARFARE; TERRORISM; TRIAGE; WAR;

EID: 20444395756     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.10.757     Document Type: Review

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