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- Title
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A MEDICAL LABORATORY TO MEET REQUIREMENTS OF CBRN DEFENCE LABORATORY.
- Authors
YAREN, Hakan; KENAR, Levent
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE: There is an ongoing debate whether a medical laboratory can provide the requirements (materiel, knowledge, personnel) for CBRN laboratory analysis and is it safe enough for potential CBRN hazards to enter a medical laboratory that is linked or integrated to a MTF and is this risk acceptable? If not, there has to be a separate capability.. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Many developed countries provide medical laboratory support at their Role-3 MTF. These medical fi eld or fi xed labs are equipped to handle routine human, animal, food or water specimen. Their analytical spectrum and equipment is focused on the general requirements of patient treatment in combat and deployment scenarios. In general, this includes methods and safety equipment for routine handling of common pathogens and biochemical analyses of human specimen. Basically, they are not equipped with special methods for the detection and identifi cation of CBRN agents RESULTS: As samples which are suspected to contain a CBRN agent cannot be safely handled in such laboratories, several nations including some NATO members have established medical biological and chemical reconnaissance capacities (materiel, knowledge, personnel) that can be deployed to augment the routine medical laboratory facilities or can act autonomously. CONCLUSION: CBRN laboratory capacities are needed for various scenarios, some of which are outside the scope of medical services and easily could exceed the operational capacities of the existing medical lab facilities. Therefore, separate CBRN laboratories should be exist and should be synchronized with the existing medical laboratory capacities in material, training and methodological terms.
- Publication
Balkan Military Medical Review, 2014, Vol 17, p15
- ISSN
1107-6275
- Publication type
Article