Dr. Rohini Haar from the University of California, Berkeley, who has reviewed the health impacts of chemical irritants and projectiles used for crowd control, told Reuters Health by email, “The toxidrome and class of agent are more important to identify than the specific agent. Agents can be mixed, chemical weapons can and have been used both for indiscriminate warfare and for individual attack, and algorithms can be useful to get on the right path early on.”
“The article reviews why it’s important to remember these basic toxidromes, although they are almost never seen by most physicians,” he said. “The emphasis should be: you won’t recognize it unless you know about it, so reviewing a paper like this is important for physicians.”
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