What is really in military Antropine Injectors ?

Question

A long time ago when I was in the Army and deployed to Iraq we were issued Antrpine Injectors in case we were hit with nerve agent . I always wondered what was in them . You have injectoe 1 and 2 . No one could ever tell us exactly what was in each injector and the purpose of it . Does any one out there know ?

Answer 1

For the love of Pete... nobody up there is right. I'm CBRN (what used to be NBC) and I have a stash of NAAK kits in my office.

The first one is atropine. It will speed your heart up to try to get your body to absorb less of the nerve agent you were exposed to.

The second one is valium to slow your heart back down.

As a side note - if you're exposed to a nerve agent (well, you're most likely going to die anyway) you need to be stuck with THREE NAAK kits. In the right order - atropine, valium, atropine, valium, atropine, valium.

You don't have a good chance of survival, but we do what we can.

Answer 2

Atropine Injector

Answer 3

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What is really in military Antropine Injectors ?
A long time ago when I was in the Army and deployed to Iraq we were issued Antrpine Injectors in case we were hit with nerve agent . I always wondered what was in them . You have injectoe 1 and 2 . No one could ever tell us exactly what was in each injector and the purpose of it . Does any one out...

Answer 4

If you are hit with nerve agent, all the injectors will do is prolong your death about 2 hours.

Answer 5

One is atropine, the other should have been 2 pam chloride or something like that. In a nerve agent exposure you were to use both needles, very long, sharp spring activated syring designed to go through exposure suits.

Answer 6

atropine and pralidoxime chloride

Nerve agent poisoning can be treated with the antidotes atropine and pralidoxime chloride (2-PAM chloride). Atropine has anticholinergic properties that are particularly effective at peripheral muscarinic sites, but are less effective at nicotinic sites. 2-PAM chloride cleaves the nerve agent from the cholinesterase enzyme and restores the enzyme’s activity. In contrast to atropine’s action, the effects of 2-PAM chloride are most noticeable at tissues with nicotinic receptors; muscarinic effects are not observably altered. The efficacy of 2-PAM chloride for treating patients decreases as time elapses due to the strengthening or "aging" of the nerve agent-enzyme bond. This so-called "aging" occurs most rapidly with soman, and 2-PAM chloride may be ineffective for exposures to soman unless administered within several minutes of exposure. Repeated administration of both atropine and 2-PAM chloride may be needed to reverse the effects of nerve agents on patients. Benzodiazepine administration may also be necessary to control seizures, and phentolamine may be needed to treat 2-PAM chloride-induced hypertension.

http://www.health.state.ny.us/environmental/emergency/chemical_terrorism/nerve_agents_tech.htm

Answer 7

As stated above the first injection is atropine, the second is pralidoxime chloride.

The first injection blocks the effects of nerve gases at the nerve receptors, the second injection reactivates cholinesterase, which helps to clear the nerve toxin from the body.

Answer 8

I was always given Atropine....no clue what antropine, or Antrpine is.

Answer 9

The first one is to speed up your heart rate. The second one I think is to slow it down. And that stuff literally shoots out. One day our NBC guy was safing some injectors, and the stuff had no problem hitting the door ten feet away.

Answer 10

The first injection is atropine and the second is pralidoxime chloride.

Did you try asking your NBC NCO?