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Title: Prevention and management of panic in personnel facing a chemical threat--lessons from the Gulf War.
Author: O'Brien-LS; Payne-RG
Abstract:
During the Gulf War a number of subjects presented with panic, hyperventilation, and inability to wear respirators when chemical alarms were sounded, despite a perceived real chemical threat. Twenty-five such sufferers were seen at the Psychiatric Departm
Journal: J-R-Army-Med-Corps. 1993 Jun; 139(2): 41-5