Consensus Guideline for Care of Patients in the Prehospital and Aerospace Settings with Exposures to Hydrazine and Hydrazine Derivatives
The consensus guideline for clinical care of patients with exposure to HZ/HZ-Ds is as follows: Prior to decontamination, use appropriate personal protective equipment, and when necessary, support ventilation using a bag-valve-mask and administer midazolam intramuscularly for seizures. After decontamination, provide supplemental oxygen; consider selective advanced airway management when indicated; administer inhaled beta-agonists for wheezing; and, for seizures unresponsive to multiple doses of benzodiazepines that occur during pre-planned, high-hazard activities, such as spacecraft recovery, consider intravenous or intraosseous pyridoxine.
Authors
- Jason R. West (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0060-0861)
- Bryan Z. Wilson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7478-0714)
- Andrew J. Harrell
- HoanVu Nguyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-520X)
- Scott McIntosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5776-9617)
- Mary Knotts
- Joshua B. Gaither (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8812-0530)
- Melissa A. Lerman
- Diane E. Hindman
- Stevan Gilmore
- Richard Cole (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-4871)
- Aun Chian Yeoh
- Frank G. Walter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2684-0851)
- Christopher J. Edwards (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-1649)
- Amber D Rice (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5799-4438)
- Farshad M. Shirazi
- Todd Davis
- Robert N. E. French
- Mark Truxillo
- Jacob T Debevec
- Michael Schertz
Institutions
- United States Air Force Research Laboratory (US)
- Boeing (United States) (US)
- New York City Fire Department (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- Boeing (Australia) (AU)
- United States Air Force (US)
- Washington Poison Center (US)
- Phoenix Children's Hospital (US)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
- University of California Davis Medical Center (US)
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Prehospital Emergency Care
- Published
- 2024-12-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10903127.2024.2442097
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00