STATUS OF USAMRDC CHEMICAL CASUALTY CARE

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Subject: STATUS OF USAMRDC CHEMICAL CASUALTY CARE                        

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               and assure adequate decontamination for unmasking, safe evacuation and treatment in a
               matter of minutes.

                      In the M2C3 practical exercise, you will observe the formal litter patient
               decontamination process with its deliberate layer-by4ayer clothing removal and monitoring
               steps. Once you have done so, you will be able to adapt the process to what Will work
               under the most difficult conditions.

                      M2C3 will provide you with a wealth of inforznation in a short time. 'ne best way
               for you to retain what you need is to teach the key points to your medics. The teaching
                                                                      'dence and readiness for forward,
               process is especially important in building confi
               nondoctrinal patient decontamination. You will not have an effective decontamination
               system until you exercise it under stress. An excellent way to constructively exercise your
               system is to test your medics' capability by using a simulant such as the polyethylene glycol
               (PEG) used in our demonstration. It has the consistency of mustard or VY, it illuminates
               under ultraviolet light and is readily removed with 0.5% chlorine solution. A good field
               expedient simulant can be prepared by dissolving the fluorescein from an eye test strip in
               1 ml of maple or corn syrup, and observing its fluorescence under the same UV light.


               14. CONCLUSION

                      Chemical casualty care is an unfamiliar, frightening, and difficult topic for most
               medical personnel who have not completed M2C3. By eliminating some fear of the
               unknown and helping you to organize your thinking and action, M2C3 should allow you to
               appreciate the problems of chemical casualty care as difficult but certainly solvable with a
              com.mon-sense approach. Our medical and physical protection against chemical warfare
               agents is better than that used by either side in the Gulf war. The real challenge you face
               is to build the human capability of your unit to execute this essential mission.
















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