© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine, & Faculty of Accident & Emergency Medicine
EDITORIAL
Chemical incidents
Planning for chemical incidents by implementing a Delphi based consensus study
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
V Murray
Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, London, Health Protection Agency, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust, Avonley Road, London SE14 5ER, UK; Virginia.Murray@gstt.sthames.nhs.uk
The past five years has seen much activity in the United Kingdom into the preparation for dealing with chemical incidents
Keywords: Delphi study; chemical incidents
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For accident and emergency (A&E) departments, many chemical incidents occur each year. However, surveillance suggests that few incidents occur in any one department each year as probably not more than about 10 events are reported for each A&E.1 The problem of A&E departments failing to manage incidents effectively has been reported.23 With little routine experience from any hazardous material incident or chemical incident, building the necessary skills to achieve the maximisation of patient care and the minimisation of harm to staff and hospital facilities has been difficult. Therefore, the need to prevent problems arising from a chemical incident, be it accidental or deliberate, for an A&E department has been a major concern.
Much activity has been undertaken in the United Kingdom over the past five years to tackle the issues of effective and safe chemical incident preparedness, response, and recovery for an A&E department.4 This work was accelerated
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