TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chemical Disasters
A1  - Horowitz, B. Zane
A1  - Hendrickson, Robert G.
A2  - Tintinalli, Judith E.
A2  - Stapczynski, J. Stephan
A2  - Ma, O. John
A2  - Yealy, Donald M.
A2  - Meckler, Garth D.
A2  - Cline, David M.
PY  - 2016
T2  - Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8e
AB  - Although  the  term  "agents  of  mass  destruction"  is  often  used  in  planning  for  terrorist  events,  in  reality,  few  chemicals  can  be  delivered  by  terrorists  in  the  appropriate  fashion  to  create  large  numbers  of  deaths.1  However,  chemical  mass  casualty  events  do  occur.  The  setting  may  involve  the  release  of  industrial  chemicals,  such  as  the  1984  industrial  accident  in  Bhopal,  India,  that  caused  more  than  2500  deaths  and  200,000  injuries  from  a  methyl  isocyanate  release,2  or  a  natural  chemical  incident,  such  as  the  emission  of  carbon  dioxide  in  Lake  Nyos,  Cameroon,  that  was  responsible  for  1700  chemical  asphyxiant  deaths.  Chemical  terrorism  may  also  occur  through  acts  of  willful  deployment,  as  with  the  sarin  release  in  the  Tokyo  subway  in  1995  in  which  12  people  died  and  5500  sought  medical  attention.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1121501499
ER  -