Lessons learned from the Syrian sarin attack: Evaluation of a clinical syndrome through social media

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 644-648

  Rosman, Yossi ^a   Eisenkraft, Arik ^a   Milk, Nadav ^a   Shiyovich, Arthur ^b   Ophir, Nimrod ^a   Shrot, Shai ^c   Kreiss, Yitshak ^d   Kassirer, Michael ^a  

^a Department of Medicine e Rabin Medical Center Beilinson Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Medical Corps Israel Defense Forces   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; LATEX; OXYGEN; SARIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUTOINJECTOR; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COMPRESSION; CONVULSION; DIAPHORESIS; DISASTER MEDICINE; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; GLOVE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LACRIMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS DISASTER; MIOSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURGICAL MASK; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; THORAX COMPRESSION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINE INCONTINENCE; VIDEORECORDING; VOMITING;

ATROPINE; CHEMICAL TERRORISM; CHILD; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; DECONTAMINATION; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; POISONING; SARIN; SOCIAL MEDIA; SYRIA;

EID: 84900449846     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M13-2799     Document Type: Review

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