Medical Management of Radiation AccidentsAlthough 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 refe |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Medical Characteristics of Different Types of Radiation Accidents | 15 |
Chapter 3 Radiation Sickness Classification | 23 |
Underlying Principles and Assessment | 33 |
Chapter 5 Treatment of Acute Radiation Sickness | 53 |
Chapter 6 Direct Effects of Radiation on Specific Tissues | 69 |
Chapter 7 The Safety of Radiation Sources and the Security of Radioactive Materials | 133 |
Chapter 8 Review of Chinese Nuclear Accidents | 149 |
Chapter 27 Fatal Accidental Overdose with Radioactive Gold in Wisconsin USA | 361 |
Chapter 28 Skin Wounds and Burns Contaminated by Radioactive Substances Metabolism Decontamination Tactics and Techniques of Medical Care | 363 |
Chapter 29 Iridium192 Acid Skin Burn in Albuquerque New Mexico USA | 421 |
Chapter 30 Hospital Preparation for Radiation Accidents | 425 |
Chapter 31 Emergency Room Management of Radiation Accidents | 437 |
Chapter 32 Application of Radiation Protection Principles to Accident Management | 449 |
Chapter 33 Monitoring and Epidemiological FollowUp of People Accidentally Exposed | 453 |
Chapter 34 Issues Involved in LongTerm FollowUp of People after Radiation Exposure | 461 |
Chapter 9 Radiation Accidents in the Former USSR | 157 |
Chapter 10 Radiation Accidents in the United States | 167 |
Chapter 11 Criticality Accidents | 173 |
Chapter 12 Medical Aspects of the Accident at Chernobyl | 195 |
Chapter 13 Accidents at Industrial Irradiation Facilities | 211 |
Chapter 14 Local Radiation Injury | 223 |
Chapter 15 Accidental Radiation Injury from Industrial Radiography Sources | 241 |
Chapter 16 Accident Involving Abandoned Radioactive Sources in Georgia 1997 | 259 |
Chapter 17 Localized Irradiation from an Industrial Radiography Source in San Ramon Peru | 269 |
Chapter 18 Exposure Analysis and Medical Evaluation of a LowEnergy XRay Diffraction Accident | 277 |
Chapter 19 Local Irradiation Injury of the Hands with an Electron Beam Machine | 289 |
Chapter 20 Accidents in Radiation Therapy | 291 |
Chapter 21 A 2Year Medical FollowUp of the Radiotherapy Accident in Costa Rica | 299 |
Chapter 22 Medical Accidents with Local Injury from Use of Medical Fluoroscopy | 313 |
General Principles | 319 |
Chapter 24 Lifetime FollowUp of the 1976 Americium Accident Victim | 337 |
Chapter 25 Two Los Alamos Plutonium Accidents | 345 |
Chapter 26 Internal Contamination in the Goiânia Accident Brazil 1987 | 355 |
Chapter 35 LongTerm FollowUp after Accidental Exposure to Radioactive Fallout in the Marshall Islands | 471 |
Chapter 36 Manhattan Project Plutonium Workers at Los Alamos | 477 |
Chapter 37 Epidemiological Evaluation of Populations Accidentally Exposed Near the Techa River Russia | 485 |
Chapter 38 Instrumentation and Physical Dose Assessment in Radiation Accidents | 489 |
Chapter 39 Evaluation of Neutron Exposure | 501 |
Chapter 40 The Current Status of Biological Dosimeters | 507 |
Chapter 41 Psychosocial Effects of Radiation Accidents | 519 |
Chapter 42 Accidental Radiation Exposure during Pregnancy | 527 |
Glossary | 541 |
Sample Radiation Plan for a Medical Facility | 557 |
World Health Organization Radiation Accident Coordinating Centers | 571 |
Conversion Tables for SI and Conventional Units | 575 |
Absorbed Dose Estimates from Radionuclides | 579 |
Specific Gamma Ray Constants | 587 |
Radionuclides Listed Alphabetically | 589 |
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Back cover | 619 |
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Medical Management of Radiation Accidents, Second Edition Igor Gusev,Angelina Guskova,Fred A. Mettler No preview available - 2001 |
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