This unique resource helps healthcare personnel provide expert, expeditious care to victims of biological, chemical, nuclear or radiologic events. Emphasizing tools for differentiating and treating conditions caused by biological and chemical agents, The Bioterrorism Sourcebook is the only one-stop source of step-by-step clinical guidance on diagnosis and treatment of bioterrorism-related conditions.

Concise and results-oriented, this resource features:

• Illustrations, charts, and synopses for fast categorization and identification of biological and chemical agents
• Tables of clinical manifestations that may result from contact with bioterror substances
• "Key Diagnostic Criteria" for all major biological, chemical and nuclear agents
• Essential findings for diagnosis
• Pathogenesis of major biological weapons
• Mechanisms of cellular and systemic injury
• Information on means of transmission, modes of dispersal and methods of exposure
• Risks for secondary infections and contamination
• Essential historical background on prior attacks and healthcare responses
• Discussion of use of the clinical setting in diagnosis
• Presenting actual patient management strategies for victims of biological, chemical and nuclear agents, The Bioterrorism Sourcebook is the one essential resource for a time we must prepare for--and hope never comes.

Michael R. Grey, MD, MPH
Kenneth R. Spaeth, MD, MPH