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Article: Chemical Warfare Agents, Part I: Choking Agents, Vesicants, and Halogenated Oximes.
- Article from:
- Emergency Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- April 7, 2003
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Chemical Warfare Agents
Part I: Choking Agents, Vesicants, and Halogenated Oximes
Author: Charles E. Stewart, MD, FACEP, Emergency Physician, Colorado Springs, CO.
Peer Reviewers: Cynthia K. Aaron, MD, FACMT, FACEP, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director, Clinical Toxicology Services, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA; Jonathan L. Burstein, MD, FACEP, Director of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
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