Main description:

This book offers a practical guide to the clinical management of sulphur and nitrogen mustard exposure including information on the history, pharmacology and toxicology of mustard compounds (MC).

Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds details the many resulting complications of sulphur mustard (SM) poisoning such as respiratory, Dermatological, Ophthalmological and Psychiatric.

This volume is a key resource for clinical toxicologists, military and emergency physicians who are involved in the teaching and research of MC and for all medical and health professions who are responsible for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of MC poisonings.

Contents:

Chemistry of Mustard Compounds.- History of use and epidemiology of mustard compounds.- Basic pharmacology and toxicology.- Clinical pharmacology and toxicology of mustard compounds.- Delayed complications and long term effects of SM poisonings - Experience of Iraq-Iran war.- Upper respiratory complications of SM poisoning.- Lower respiratory complications of SM poisoning.- Dermatologic aspects of sulfur mustard exposure.- Ocular injury by mustard gas; early and late complications.- Immunological and hematological complications of sulfur mustard poisoning.- Psychiatric complications of sulfur mustard (SM) poisoning.- Genotoxicity, teratogenicity and mutagenicity of SM poisoning.- Verification of SM exposure in biological samples.- Occupational and environmental mustard exposure, prevention and chemical weapons convention.- Summary and conclusion