Practical guidelines for acute care of victims of bioterrorism: Conventional injuries and concomitant nerve agent intoxication

In preparing this manuscript on providing acute and anesthesia care with conventional injury associated with nerve agent intoxication, we were appalled to discover how little is known. We tried to glean relevant information from publications on related subjects and adapt it to (what are still thankfully) theoretical situations. We did not address the issue of whom to treat when facilities are limited or how to extend the resources to better accommodate suddenly colossal needs. If nothing more, we discovered the enormous complexity of the problem and hope that others will take these first steps much further so that, one day, we will be prepared - hopefully, in vain.