Told to stock up on antidotes, be ready for crisis
Feb.13, 2003
New York City hospitals were placed on high alert yesterday after the government warned of a potential cyanide gas attack by terrorists.
The city Health Department has urged hospitals to increase levels of sodium thiosulfate, the antidote to cyanide, and other pharmaceutical agents in emergency rooms to deal with chemical warfare - or a nuclear attack.
"The hospitals have some stocks," said Susan Waltman, senior vice president with the Greater New York Hospital Association, the group that distributed the seven-page department alert to area emergency rooms. "But over time, we have enhanced our supplies of a lot of antibiotics and these types of antidotes, as well as different kinds of items we may need in a nuclear/radiological event." [Full Story]
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