Clinical review: Tokyo - Protecting the health care worker during a chemical mass casualty event: An important issue of continuing relevance

Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-400

  Okumura, Sumie ^a   Okumura, Tetsu ^b   Ishimatsu, Shinichi ^c   Miura, Kunihisa ^a   Maekawa, Hiroshi ^a   Naito, Toshio ^d  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CYANIDE; SARIN; SODIUM AZIDE; SULFIDE;

ACCIDENT; AIR CONDITIONING; CHEMICAL WARFARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; JAPAN; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; STOMACH LAVAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHEMICAL TERRORISM; DECONTAMINATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SARIN; TOKYO;

EID: 23744480484     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3062     Document Type: Review

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