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Fig. 18-4. Tracheal intubations can be life saving. Most intubations are as long as the operative procedures some critical airway needs last hours or days. Courtesy Medical Engineering Corp.)...

HAZWOPER, related DOE, and the Army Corps of Engineers rules and requirements stipulate that employees involved in any of the following activities who have a reasonable possibility of exposure to hazardous substances or health hazards at specified levels (see 1910.120 [f [2]) should be included in a medical surveillance program ... 

This work was supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada and Inex Pharmacouticals Corp. D. L. Reimer was an MRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the time of this work. E. K. Wasan is supported through a B.C. Science Council Graduate Research, Engineering and Technology fellowship. F.M.P. Wong is a recipient of a fellowship from the Science Council of British Columbia and the Cancer Research Society, Inc. P. Harvie is a FRSQ post-doctoral fellow. 

Eventually, the War Department also began to plan for chemical warfare. The Medical Department was assigned responsibility for chemical defense and the Ordnance Department responsibility for chemical munitions. The Corps of Engineers was designated to provide engineers to employ the new weapons. This diversified arrangement did not last long. 

Bauer VE, Lindsten DC, Epstein J (1955) Field purification of water containing CW agents with Corps of Engineers mobile water purification unit. MLRR No. 344. Chemical Corps Medical Laboratory, Army Chemical Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. (Cited in Rosenblatt et al. 1975.)... 

It has been estimated that roughly 25% of incineration systems installed within the last 10 years either do not operate properly or do not satisfy user performance objectives. A 1981 University of Maryland survey of medical and academic institutions incinerating low-level radioactive wastes indicated that only about 50% of the institutions surveyed (23 total) reported no problems, and about 47% of the institutions (20 total) reported problems ranging from mechanical difficulties to combustion difficulties. A survey conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research Laboratory in 1985 at 52 incineration facilities reported that 17% of the users were very pleased with their systems, 71% were generally satisfied with the performance of their systems (but indicated that minor changes were needed to reduce maintenance and improve efficiency), and 12% were not happy with their systems (reporting severe problems). Results of this Army survey are summarized in Table 4.26. 

Andrew G. Bachmann has served as President of the American Chemical Engineering Company since founding it in December of 1979. He previously worked at Allied Product Corp. and Loctite Corp. Mr. Bachmann has authored or coauthored several patents in the field of structural adhesives and microencapsulation, and has extensive experience in the chemistry and medical uses of cyanoacrylates as surgical adhesives. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry at the University of Richmond and his M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the University of Hartford. 

In September 1917, a Gas Defense Service, Sanitary Corps, Medical Department, was activated. This service, in which a group of forty-five chemists was commissioned, was placed in charge of training. In April 1918 the officers of the Gas Defense Service were transferred to the Corps of Engineers. See Report of the Director of Chemical Warfare Service, 1919, pp. 43-49. Hereafter cited as Rpt of CWS, with appropriate year. 

In the spring of 1918 separate proposals were made both in the United States and in France to establish a gas corps. On 17 April Lt. Col. Marston T. Bogert, who had succeeded Colonel Walker as chief of the Chemical Service Section, recommended to the Chief of Staff that the section be replaced by a "chemical corps which would be on a "basis more nearly like that occupied by the Engineering and Medical branches of the Army. ... 

When this list of British equipment was submitted to the U.S. arms and services in an effort to establish their requirements, representatives of the Navy, Armored Force, Quartermaster, Field Artillery, and Engineers expressed an interest in almost every item, the Infantry and Medical Corps indicated interest in several items only, and the Signal and Ordnance wanted almost none. ... 

The other arms and services were the Air Corps, Coast Artillery Corps, Corps of Engineers, Medical Department, Ordnance Department, Quartermaster Corps, and Signal Corps. 

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