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The moment we’ve all been waiting for – new smoke inhalation treatment protocols. Drs. Dan O’Brien, Donald Walsh, Alan Hall and Colleen M. Terriff, PharmD, BCPS, have authored new treatment protocols. Immediately share this document with your medical directors and local hospitals. This is new life-saving medicine. Empiric Management of Cyanide Toxicity Associated with Smoke Inhalation.

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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS & TERRORISM

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Cyanide & Modern Fires: Scientific and Practical Fundamentals for Fire Service Professionals

The contribution of hydrogen cyanide to smoke inhalation-associated injury and death has historically been overshadowed by a focus on carbon monoxide, another important toxicant in fire smoke. However, the role of cyanide is becoming better understood everyday as the body of evidence establishing its pervasiveness as a combustion product and its toxicity in the fire [...]

SMOKE The Toxic Twins: An Advance Perspective On Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Cyanide (CN) and carbon monoxide (CO) are properly studied in the discipline of toxicology, the study of poisons, i.e. substances that have deleterious effects on the body. Cyanide is probably the most famous poison of murder mysteries and of legend. It is extremely poisonous to all aerobic organisms, and certainly to all mammals including man. [...]

Cyanide: Understanding the Risk, Enhancing Preparedness

RTI International, in coordination with an advisory board of emergency response experts, conducted a research project to pro- vide an overview of cyanide risk as a toxicant and cyanide inci- dent preparedness in the U.S. The goals of the research project were to Provide a much needed national view of cyanide use and presence in [...]

Cyanide as a Weapon

The “blood agents” or tissue toxins act by destroying the ability of the blood and tissues to carry or process oxygen. Cyanide, an ancient compound, is the prototype agent in this group. These agents have long been considered a threat for use in terrorism. Hydrogen cyanide is a colorless liquid which boils at 26 °C. [...]