Operation Castle Cascade: Managing Multiple Casualties from a Simulated Chemical Weapons Attack

Managing mild casualties in mass-casualty incidents: lessons learned from an aborted terrorist attack.

INTRODUCTION Mildly injured and "worried well" patients can have profound effects on the management of a mass-casualty incident. The objective of this study is to describe the characteristics and lessons learned from an event that occurred on 28 August 2005 near the central bus station in Beer-Sheva, Israel. The unique profile of injuries allows for the examination of the medical and operationa...

Triage of Chemical Casualties

Mortality and cancer from chemical weapons testing

Triage of Chemical Casualties

Mortality and cancer from chemical weapons testing

The experimental studies of the effects of chemical warfare agents conducted on thousands of British military personnel over several decades at the Porton Down facility in the United Kingdom have been an ongoing source of controversy regarding the scientific, ethical, and moral environment in which they took place.1 Concerns about effects on health increased following a coroner’s finding in 200...