Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook - Softcover
Newly updated, the Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook: Second Edition is an essential guide for US first responders that consolidates critical planning information and response procedures for a chem-bio incident. Fundamental on-scene procedural information includes initial response procedures, chemical agent indicator matrix, on-scene handling of biological agents, decontamination procedures, site set-up procedures with detailed graphics, and much more. Key contents include: re-incident planning; On-scene procedures; Comprehensive management checklists for rapid response; Latest triage and casualty management; Chemical-biological agent descriptions and effects; Chemical-biological agent delivery systems and methods; Management of biological casualties; post-incident recovery including critical incident stress debriefing; Meteorological conditions; Chem-bio case studies To order Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook: Second Edition, visit http //security.janes.com/public_safety. For related information see: Jane's Chem-Bio Web, Jane's Chemical-Biological Defense Guidebook and other Jane's public Safety Series handbooks. Customisation of handbooks for quantities of 500 or more is available to allow you to
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About the Author:
Frederick R. Sidell, M.D., spent 31 years at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. While with the government, Dr. Sidell saw hundreds of casualties from chemical warfare agents, wrote extensively on this topic in scientific and medical journals and books. In 1979 the Army Surgeon General sent him to Thailand to investigate the alleged use of chemical agents against the refugees Laos, and in March 1995 he was one of three physicians sent by the State Department to Tokyo to advise Japanese physicians on the management of nerve agent casualties after the nerve agent subway incident.
William C. Patrick, III has 47-years experience in the field of Biological Warfare (BW); the first 21 years were devoted to the offensive aspects of BW (1951-1972); 14 years were devoted to the development of medical defense research programs to counter potential offensive BW of adversary nations; and since his retirement in 1986, Mr. Patrick has served as a consultant to the US Government as well as private organizations.
Thomas R. Dashiell Extensive Research and Development (R&D) management experience. Over thirty-eight years of hands-on technical and managerial experience in R&D involving major programs of increasing scope and responsibility. Mr. Dashiell was a biologist and chemical engineer born in Riverton, Maryland, graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1962. Arms expert, biologist Thomas Dashiell dies at seventy.
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- PublisherJanes Information Group
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0710626002
- ISBN 13 9780710626004
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages350
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