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Advice on assistance and protection from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: Part 2. On preventing and treating health effects from acute, prolonged, and repeated nerve agent exposure, and the identification of medical countermeasures able to reduce or eliminate the longer term health effects of nerve agents

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has provided advice in relation to the Chemical Weapons Convention on assistance and protection. In this, the second of three papers on this topic, we present the SAB’s response to a request from the OPCW Director-General in 2014 for information on best practices for preventing and treating the health effects from acute, prolonged, and repeated organophosphorus nerve agent (NA) exposure. The report summarises pre- and post-exposure treatments, and developments in decontaminants and adsorbing materials, that at the time of the advice were available for NAs. The information provided herein could assist medics and emergency responders unfamiliar with treatment and decontamination options related to exposure to NAs. The SAB recommended that developments in research on medical countermeasures and decontaminants for NAs should be monitored by the OPCW, and used in assistance and protection training courses and workshops organised through its capacity building programmes.

Absorbing materials for nerve agents ; Assistance and protection against chemical weapons ; Bioscavenger ; Caramiphen ; Chemical warfare agent ; Chemical Weapons Convention ; Decontaminants ; Gacyclidine ; Huperzine A ; Ketamine ; Long term effects of nerve agents ; Medical management of chemical warfare casualties ; Nerve agent ; Organophosphorus nerve agent ; Penehyclidine ; Support network for the victims of chemical weapons ; Tezampanel

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