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How is the victim of vesicant (blister agent) exposure with skin burn over less than 5 percent of body surface area (bsa)and minor eye irritation classified?
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How is the victim of vesicant (blister agent) exposure with skin burns less than 5 percent of Body Surface Area (BSA) and minor eye irritation classified?
Minimal
How is the victim of blister agent exposure with skin burn over less than 5 percent of BSA and minor eye irritation classified?
Minimal
What are Vesicant (blister) agents?
Blister Agents
What are vesicant agents?
Blister Agents
Vesicant blister agents include sarin lewisite phosgen oxime or nitrogen mustard?
Lewisite is a vesicant gas.
Which vesicant (blister agent) is suspected?
The door is open; many victims are lying on the floor. What do you do first?
Which vesicant (blister agent) is suspected in a patient suffering from painful highly corrosive burns similar to acid and wheals have begun to appear on the skin?
A patient is suffering from painful, highly corrosive burns similar to acid, and wheals have begun to appear on the skin. Which vesicant (blister agent) is suspected?
What is Blister?
A blister is a small bubble between layers of skin which contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
A patient is suffering from painful highly corrosive burns similar to acid and wheals have begun to appear on the skin. which vesicant agent is suspected?
A patient is suffering from painful, highly corrosive burns similar to acid, and wheals have begun to appear on the skin. Which vesicant (blister agent) is suspected?
How does Blister agent effects on the body?
A blister agent is a severe contact irritant. They cause severe chemical burns to any exposed tissue, resulting in large water-filled blisters forming on the affected tissue. Most blister agents are both contact and inhalation hazards. If inhaled, they can cause death shortly after exposure, as the lungs and throat quickly burn and fill with blisters, inhibiting breathing. Alternately, these blister burst, filling the lungs with fluid. Death from inhalation of a blister agent can vary from minutes to several days later, depending on the amount of exposure (the more, the quicker the death). Contact with the outer skin is much less fatal, though extremely painful. Fatalities are usually the result of infection and sepsis from the burst blister wounds.
What are the effects of a blister agent?
Exposure to a weaponized blister agent can cause a number of life-threatening symptoms, including:Severe skin, eye and mucosal pain and irritationSkin erythemawith large fluid blisterthat heal slowly and may become infectedtears, conjunctivitis, corneadamageMild respiratory-distress-1to marked airway damageAll blister agents currently known are heavier than air, and are readily absorbed through the eyes, lungs, and skin. Effects of the two mustard agents are typically delayed: exposure to vapors becomes evident in 4 to 6 hours, and skin exposure in 2 to 48 hours. The effects of lewisiteare immediate.
What are the different types of blister agents?
Blister agents, sometimes called vesicants, are chemicals that cause severe and acute irritation to the skin and mucus membranes. There are innumerable weaponized blister agents, but probably the most well known is mustard gas which was used widely during the first World War. This was a Sulfur mustard but their are also Nitrogen mustards. Although developed during World War 1, the British blister agent Lewisite was never used in action and was rendered obsolete with the development of an antidote.
