Chemical Warfare Agents

Sunday, 22 September 2019
08:00 – 17:30

Course Description

Recently chemical warfare agents have been used in Syria and Iraq causing thousands of injuries and death. Additionally, in the United Kingdom and Malaysia, they have been used for criminal assassinations. These incidents highlight the critical importance of enhancing our preparedness towards these hazards through training of our health care workforce on the rapid recognition and safe optimal management of these injuries and exposures.

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Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

Describe major historical uses of chemicals in war and criminal acts
Discuss clinically relevant chemical properties
Describe the clinical toxidromes of major chemical warfare agents
Discuss prevention and management of chemical injuries from exposure to these agents

Course Fee

Organizing Society Member (AAEM, MAEM): $325 USD
Non-Member: $375 USD
*course fee includes boxed lunch
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Tentative Course Schedule

Sunday, 22 September 2019

08:00 – 08:30	Registration and Breakfast
08:30 – 09:00	Chemical Warfare Agents: Here & There; Now & Then Ziad Kazzi, MD FAAEM FACMT FAACT
09:00 – 09:30	Vesicants Timothy Wiegand, MD FACMT
09:30 – 10:00	Nerve Agents Brent Morgan, MD FAAEM FACMT
10:00 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:00	Asphyxiants Tharwat El Zahran, MD
11:00 – 11:30	Irritants Badria Alhatali, MD FACMT
11:30 – 12:00	Good Old Ricin Bruno Mégarbane, MD PhD
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:30	Scene and Hospital Response Ziad Kazzi, MD FAAEM FACMT FAACT Ibtihal Alattas, MD FAAEM
14:30 – 15:00	Preventing the Problem: Basic Principles of Chemical Security and Information Resources Ziad Kazzi, MD FAAEM FACMT FAACT
15:00 – 15:30	Break
15:30 – 17:00	Case Studies from Iraq: Mustard, Chlorine, Thallium All Faculty
17:00 – 17:30	Q&A Session

Target Audience

Physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses and paramedics

Course Director

Ziad Kazzi, MD FAAEM FACEP FACMT FAACT
Associate Professor, Director, International Postdoctoral Medical Toxicology Fellowship, Assistant Medical Director, Georgia Poison Center, President, MENATOX, Board, Member, ACMT, Editor, AHLS for Radiological Incidents and Terrorism, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Faculty

Ibtihal Alattas, MD FAAEM
Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Saudi Arabia

Badria Al Hatali, MD FACMT
Director, Oman Poison Center, Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, Consultant, Royal Hospital, Sultanate of Oman

Tharwat El Zahran, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Bruno Mégarbane, MD PhD
Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Medical Toxicology, Paris, France

Brent Morgan, MD FAAEM FACMT
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Director, Medical Toxicology Residency Program, Emory University Associate Medical Director, Georgia Poison Center, Atlanta, GA, USA

Timothy Wiegand, MD FACMT
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Toxicology Services, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester University, Board of Directors, ACMT, Board of Directors, ASAM, Board of Directors, MTF, Rochester, NY, USA

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