Emergency Medical Response to Hazardous Materials Incidents

Type

Book

Authors

Armando Bevelacqua

Richard Stilp

ISBN 10

0827378297

ISBN 13

9780827378292

Tags

Safety & First Aid, Environmental, Fire Science, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency, Schools & Teaching, Education, Environmental Engineering, Emergency Medicine

Description

This text explores the medical aspects of hazardous material response including the initial response, chemical and toxicological information, effects on body systems -- injury and treatment, physiology and treatments of common poisonings. The student learns how to make decisions based on a scale of risk versus gain. Decontamination techniques, specialized equipment, simple antidotal treatments and more are discussed as they relate to the hazardous materials incident. - from Amzon

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