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This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled “Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack”. The workshop was held on 25-28 January 2005 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Currently, scientists and experts from many countries are working on development and implementation of a readiness for anti terrorist actions. In addition to chemical weapons, terrorists can use various toxic chemicals from chemical industry, agriculture or products released from terrorist acts on industrial facilities. The arsenal of chemical agents that can be used as terrorist agents is practically unlimited. The focus of this workshop was assessment of scientific concepts and practical means for management of chemical agent casualties in the area of terrorist attack with emphasis on improving the medical treatment and decontamination. These problems were analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective. The primary objective of the ARW was to provide countries in which chemical-defense systems are currently under development with the experience and expertise of those that are more advanced and/or have already been exposed and responded to a chemical-terrorist attack. . The main areas covered were: 1. new approaches in pre-treatment and prophylaxis of nerve agent intoxication; 2. diagnosis of exposure to chemical agents ; 3. therapy of chemical agent intoxication; 4. development of personal decontamination; 5. decontamination of intoxication with chemical agents.

Victims of terrorism --- Chemical terrorism --- Chemical Terrorism --- Chemical Warfare --- Antidotes --- Chemical Warfare Agents --- Decontamination --- Medical care --- Congresses --- Health aspects --- prevention & control --- therapeutic use --- poisoning --- methods --- Chemical terrorism -- Health aspects -- Congresses. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Victims of terrorism -- Medical care -- Congresses. --- Poisoning --- Methods --- Protective Agents --- Weapons of Mass Destruction --- Weapons --- Terrorism --- War --- Substance-Related Disorders --- Publication Formats --- Poisons --- Investigative Techniques --- Public Health Practice --- Publication Characteristics --- Manufactured Materials --- Physiological Effects of Drugs --- Diseases --- Public Health --- Noxae --- Specialty Uses of Chemicals --- Violence --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Social Problems --- Crime --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Sociology --- Pharmacologic Actions --- Environment and Public Health --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Toxic Actions --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Health Care --- Social Sciences --- Criminology --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology --- Emergency Medicine --- War & Public Health --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Terrorism victims --- Medicine. --- Pharmacology. --- Chemistry. --- Emergency medicine. --- Critical care medicine. --- Occupational medicine. --- Biomedicine. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods. --- Victims of crimes --- Toxicology. --- Medicine, Industrial. --- Chemicals --- Safety measures. --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Industrial medicine --- Medicine, Occupational --- Occupational medicine --- Occupational diseases --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Pharmacology --- Toxicology --- Physical sciences --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Medical sciences --- Chemotherapy --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Physiological effect --- Medical treatment --- Intoxicants --- Terrorist attack

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This volume originates from the NATO Advanced Study Institute Environmental UV Radiation: Impact on Ecosystems and Human Health and Predictive Models, held in Pisa, Italy in June 2001. The Institute was sponsored and mainly funded by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, whose constant contribution in favour of the cooperation among scientists from different countries must be acknowledged. Other Institutions substantially contributed to the success of the ASI and our thanks and appreciation go to the Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), the European Society for Photobiology and the bank Banca Toscana. In the last two decades of the past century, concern has been growing for the possible effects on the biosphere of the stratospheric ozone depletion, due to anthropogenic emissions of ozone-destroying chemicals. The ozone loss causes an increase in the biologically important part of the solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) reaching the Earth’s surface, which constitutes a threat to the biosphere, because of UV damaging effects on humans, animals and plants. The international agreements have reduced the production of ozo- destroying compounds, which, however, are still present in high concentrations in the stratosphere, mainly because of their longevity, and thus ozone depletion will likely continue for several decades.

Ultraviolet radiation --- Plants --- Rayonnement ultraviolet --- Plantes, Effets du rayonnement ultraviolet sur les --- Environmental aspects --- Effect of ultraviolet radiation on --- Physiological effect --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Effets physiologiques --- Ultraviolet radiation. --- Ultraviolet Rays --- Water Pollutants, Radioactive --- Environmental Exposure --- Environmental Monitoring --- Public Health Practice --- Sunlight --- Light --- Environmental Pollution --- Water Pollutants --- Eukaryota --- Radioactive Pollutants --- Public Health --- Complex Mixtures --- Weather --- Radiation, Nonionizing --- Organisms --- Optical Phenomena --- Environmental Pollutants --- Environment and Public Health --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Radiation --- Atmosphere --- Meteorological Concepts --- Physical Phenomena --- Toxic Actions --- Health Care --- Environment --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Electromagnetic Phenomena --- Biological Phenomena --- Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Human beings --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO SPRINGER-B --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Black light --- Light, Black --- Light, Ultraviolet --- Rays, Ultraviolet --- U-V light --- U-V radiation --- U-V rays --- Ultra-violet radiation --- Ultra-violet rays --- Ultraviolet light --- Ultraviolet rays --- UV light --- UV radiation --- UV rays --- Environment. --- Plant ecology. --- Climate change. --- Radiation protection. --- Environmental health. --- Ecotoxicology. --- Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection. --- Climate Change. --- Plant Ecology. --- Environmental Health. --- Safety measures. --- Ecotoxicology --- Pollutants --- Pollution --- Environmental health --- Toxicology --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Radiation monitoring --- Radiation protection --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Botany --- Health aspects --- Hominids --- Persons --- Environmental protection. --- Climatic changes. --- Environmental Medicine. --- Environmental toxicology. --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental policy --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Radiation—Safety measures. --- Floristic ecology --- Environmental UV radiation --- Ecosystems --- Human health --- Global environmental change