USAMRIID's Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook 9th Edition

Download or read book USAMRIID's Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook 9th Edition written by U. S. Army U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 9th edition has been revised and updated to better present our current understanding of the optimal medical management of diseases and syndromes caused by biological threat agents. Medical defense against the use of pathogens and toxins as battlefield weapons, or in terrorism, is an unfamiliar yet important subject to many military and civilian healthcare providers. The US military has pursued research relevant to the medical defense against biological threat agents (bio-agents) since World War II, first in concert with an offensive weapons program, then -- for the past 50 years -- as a purely defensive research program. However, the 2001 terrorist attacks on the US mainland, and subsequent anthrax mail attacks, emphasized to national and local political leaders, lawmakers, medical opinion makers, and the public at large, that the bio-agent threat was real and required much more planning, training, and resources for an effective response.