Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook: Part I: Types of Wounds and Injuries: Chapter VI: Chemical Injury

Introduction

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This chapter provides updated guidance for initial care of chemical casualties so as to save life and limb and to aid in the soldier's early return to duty. The recommendations include current research views and should be considered as an adjunct to, not a substitute for, doctrinal management as outlined in Army TM 8-285, Treatment of Chemical Agent Casualties and Conventional Military Chemical Injuries, dated May 1974 (Change #2, November 1985).

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