Medical management of radiation accidents
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Medical management of radiation accidents
CRC Press, 2001
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Although radiation accidents are rare and often complex in nature, they are of great concern not only to the patient and involved medical staff, but to the media and public as well. Yet there are few if any comprehensive publications on the medical management of radiation accidents. Medical Management of Radiation Accidents provides a complete reference for those concerned with radiation accidents nationally as well as abroad.
Substantially different from the first edition, which dealt predominantly with radiation accident experiences in the United States, this updated and revised Second Edition represents an international cooperative effort that reflects current international approaches and experiences related to the medical management of radiation accidents. It is organized into areas that include:
the fundamental aspects, medical characteristics, and classification of radiation accidents
aspects of radiation on the entire body and specific tissues
the history of accidents throughout the world
a general overview of certain types of accidents with specific examples
a follow-up of persons accidentally exposed to radiation with considerations related to epidemiological studies and a few selected examples
radiation protection and dosimetry issues, psychological considerations, and accidental exposure of pregnant females.
The majority of this text is a Russian-United States effort; however, it includes work from authors from Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, and Peru.
Table of Contents
Fundamentals of Radiation Accidents. Medical Characteristics of Different Types of Radiation Accidents. Radiation Sickness Classification. Acute Radiation Sickness: Underlying Principles and Assessment. Treatment of Acute Radiation Sickness. Direct Effects of Radiation on Specific Tissues. The Safety of Radiation Sources and the Security of Radioactive Materials. Review of Chinese Nuclear Accidents. Radiation Accidents in the Former U.S.S.R. Radiation Accidents in the United States. Criticality Accidents. Medical Aspects of the Accident at Chernobyl. Accidents at Industrial Irradiation Facilities. Local Radiation Injury. Accidental Radiation Injury From Industrial Radiography Sources. Accident Involving Abandoned Radioactive Sources in Georgia, 1997. Localized Irradiation from an Industrial Radiography Source in San Ramon, Peru. Exposure Analysis and Medical Evaluation of a Low Energy X-Ray Diffraction Accident. Local Irradiation Injury of the Hands with an Electron Beam Machine. Accidents in Radiation Therapy. Two-Year Medical Follow-up on the Radiographic Accident in Costsa Rica. Medical Accidents with Local Injury: Local Injury from Use of Medical Fluoroscopy. Assessment and Treatment of Internal Contamination: General Principles. Lifetime Follow-up of the 1976 American Accident Victim. Two Los Alamos Plutonium Accidents. Internal Contamination in the Goiania Accident -- Brazil, 1987. Fatal Accidental Overdose with Radioactive Gold in Wisconsin, United States.
Skin Wounds and Burns Contaminated by Radioactive Substances (Metabolism, Decontamination, Tactics and Techniques of Medical Care). Iridium-192 Acid Skin Burn in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hospital Preparation for Radiation Accidents. Emergency Room Management of Radiation Accidents. Application of Radiation Protection Principles to Accident Management. Monitoring and Epidemiological Follow-up of Persons Accidentally Exposed. Issues Involved in Long-term Follow-up of Persons After Radiation Exposure. Long-Term Follow-up After Accidental Exposure to Radioactive Fallout in the Marshall Islands. Manhattan Project Plutonium Workers at Los Alamos. Epidemiologic Evaluation of Populations Employed and Accidentally Exposed Near the Techa River. Instrumentation and Physical Dose Assessment in Radiation Accidents. Evaluation of Neutron Exposure. The Current Status of Biological Dosimeters. Psychosocial Effects of Radiation Accidents. Accidental Radiation Exposure During Pregnancy.
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