VA Medical NBC Battlebook

VA - Medical NBC Battlebook.pdf

pdf | 330 pages | ISBS 0276288828 | Language: English | 1999 | 3,4 MB

THE MEDICAL NBC BATTLEBOOK

Thepurposeofthisbattlebookistoaddressoperationalhealthconcernsinenvironmentswhere Nuclear,Biological,andChemical(NBC)threatsexist. PotentialNBCthreatsrangefrom weapons of mass destruction to contamination of the battlefield by hazardous material.Medical personnel, in conjunction with chemical personnel, must be able to advise commanders on a wide range of issues including the health effects of NBC threats, protective clothing and measures, and management of NBC casualties. This manual is not an emergency response book or treatment guide.It is intended to provide a quick reference for decision making as to whether to request expert consultation in a given area. Except in extreme emergency, the contents should not be construed as definitive.

"I also worried about the great empty area of southern Iraq where the Army would launch its attack. I kept asking myself, ‘What does Saddam know about that flank that I don’t? Why doesn’t he have any forces out there?’ The intelligence people suggested offhandedly, ‘Maybe he plans to pop a nuke out there.’ They then nicknamed the sector the ‘chemical killing sack.’ I’d flinch every time I heard it. I had a nightmare vision of Fred Franks and Gary Luck hitting that area only to have the Iraqis dump massivequantitiesofchemicalswhiletheRepublicanGuardcounterattackedandfoughtustoa stalemate. I became increasingly jumpy.”

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, 1991

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TheBattlebookProjectTeamatTheU.S.ArmyCenterforHealthPromotionandPreventive Medicine(USACHPPM)wouldliketothankandacknowledgethefollowingpeoplefortheir contributions in the development of this battlebook:

Colonel Robert Eng, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI)

Lieutenant Colonel Carl Curling, The Office of the Surgeon General

Lieutenant Colonel William Klenke, 30th Medical Brigade

Mr. Jesse Barkley, The Office of the Deputy for Technical Services, USACHPPM

Lieutenant Colonel Debra Schnelle, Directorate of Occupational Health Science, USACHPPM

Major Gary Matcek, Directorate of Occupational Health Science, USACHPPM

Battlebook Project Team

Dr. C. B. McKee, Directorate of Occupational Health Science, USACHPPM

Dr. Lisa Collins, Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Engineering

Ms Jennifer Keetley, Directorate of Environmental Health Engineering

Dr. Howard Bausum, Office of the Deputy of Technical Services

Major Terry Besch, Directorate of Toxicology

Captain Craig Moss, MEDDAC - Ft Leonard Wood

First Lieutenant Francis Hoin, Directorate of Occupational Health Science

Various other personnel from USACHPPM

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