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As part of ongoing preparation for this terrible reality, many jurisdictions have been conducting simulated terrorist incidents to provide training for the public safety community, hospitals, and public health departments. As an example of this national effort to improve domestic preparedness for such events, a large scale, multi-jurisdictional chemical weapons drill was conducted in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 20, 2000. This drill depicted the components of the early warning system for hospitals and public health departments, the prehospital medical response to terrorism. Over the course of the exercise, emergency medical services personnel decontaminated, triaged, treated, and transported eighty-five patients. Several important lessons were learned that day that have widespread applicability to health care delivery systems nationwide, especially in the areas of decontamination, triage, on-scene medical care, and victim transportation. As this training exercise helped Cincinnati to prepare for dealing with future large scale WMD incidents, such drills are invaluable preparation for all communities in a world increasingly at risk from terrorist attacks. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/phr\/118.3.205","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2003,5,23]],"date-time":"2003-05-23T19:38:47Z","timestamp":1053718727000},"page":"205-214","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Chemical Weapon Functional Exercise\u2014Cincinnati: Observations and Lessons Learned from a \u201cTypical Medium-Sized\u201d City's Response to Simulated Terrorism Utilizing Weapons of Mass Destruction"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"118","author":[{"given":"Denis J.","family":"FitzGerald","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Special Operations Institute, Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, Cincinnati, OH"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Matthew D.","family":"Sztajnkrycer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Todd J.","family":"Crocco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Robert Byrd Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, WV"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2003,5,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-phr-118.3.205","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0196-0644(96)70052-5"},{"key":"bibr2-phr-118.3.205","unstructured":"Obu S. 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