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- Emergency personnel play a critical role in assessing and managing victims during a terrorist attack involving chemical agents.
- First responders and local hospitals must prepare for the possibility of multiple chemical agents being used in an attack.
- The article focuses on four specific potential chemical terrorist agents: sodium monofluoroacetate, trichothecene mycotoxins, vomiting agents, and saxitoxin.
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Emergency personnel are tasked with the daunting job of being the first to evaluate and manage victims of a terrorist attack. Numerous potential chemical agents could be used by terrorists. The challenge for first responders and local hospital emergency personnel is to prepare for a terrorist event that might use one or more of these agents. As part of that preparation, emergency physicians should have a basic understanding of potential chemical terrorist agents. It is beyond the scope of this article to review all potential terrorist agents. Rather, four potential agents have been chosen for review: sodium monofluoroacetate, trichothecene mycotoxins, vomiting agents, and saxitoxin.
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