Medical aspects of chemical and biological warfare.

Patient flow in a theater of operations -- Medical aftermath of the Persian Gulf War -- Overview: defense against the effects of chemical and biological warfare agents -- History of chemical and biological warfare: an American perspective -- Historical aspects of medical defense against chemical warfare -- The chemical warfare threat and the military healthcare provider -- Nerve agents -- Pretreatment for nerve agent exposure -- Vesicants -- Long-term health effects of nerve agents and mustard -- Toxic inhalation injury -- Cyanide poisoning -- Incapacitating agents -- Riot control agents -- Field management of chemical casualties -- Triage of chemical casualties -- Decontamination -- Chemical defense equipment -- Healthcare and the chemical surety mission -- Historical overview of biological warfare -- The U.S. biological warfare and biological defense programs -- Use of biological weapons -- The biological warfare threat -- Anthrax -- Plague -- Tularemia -- Brucellosis -- Q Fever -- Smallpox -- Viral Encephalitides -- Viral Hemorrhagic fevers -- Defense against toxin weapons -- Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B and related pyrogenic toxins -- Medical challenges in chemical and biological defense for the 21st century