This book contains the proceedings on medical management of radiation accidents. Topics covered include: Fundamentals of radiation accidents, Emergency room management of radiation accidents, and Special aspects of nuclear power.
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The autopsy of aircraft accident victims is an important aspect in the investigation of the accident. Three jurisdictions--the National Transportation Safety Board, the military services and state of local coroners or medical examiners--have authority, un...
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This book provides a comprehensive of the April 1986 Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident and its short and long-term effects in the fourteen years since the accident. Chapters include: cause and description of the accident; the Shelter constructed to contain the remains the destroyed reactor, radioactive wastes arising from the ...
The conservation aspect of the treatment of patients who received whole-body exposure is presented. Such treatment is to be started during the first hours after the accident (prodomal phase), as well as the nonconventional measures to be adopted when the ...
The events that originate the Goiania radiological accident involving the rupture of Cesium 137 source, the source characteristics, the medical aspects related to the triage of victims, the medical attendance, and the special measurements of decontaminati...
... Because many such events (eg, fatal traffic accidents) occur with high frequency but result in few deaths per occurrence, it is hard to determine how ...
Crisis handling in most kinds of disasters is affected by e.g. the information situation, prior experience and preparedness, availability of resources, efficiency of leadership and coordination, and type of disaster. A nuclear accident creates a situation...
From 11 to 13 May 1988, the All-Union Scientific Centre of Radiation Medicine convened a Conference on Medical Aspects of the Chernobyl Accident in Kiev. This was the first conference on this subject with international participation held in the Soviet Uni...
As part of an assessment into the consequences of a potential accident at the National Medical Cyclotron, Camperdown, NSW., Australia, two meteorological stations were installed to monitor the winds, temperatures and atmospheric dispersion conditions. The...
Injuries and deaths from traffic accidents are a public health problem of epidemic proportions and justify intensive epidemiological research. The human factor is responsible for the majority of traffic accidents. The literature concerning the human factor is reviewed, and it is concluded that psychosocial influences are most important, though ...
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Problems encountered by a young, unmarried woman who, as a result of a spinal injury in an automobile accident, loses use of all four limbs and requires complex home health care services delivered by a network of health and social service agencies in a rural area of Kentucky. Economic, psychosocial, ethical, preventive, and medical ...
Medical publications contain numerous references to obstacles or disincentives confronting patients who wish to return to work after illness or injury. Current developments of importance to this aspect of medical practice and four recent studies, conducted in Edinburgh, that may contribute to the continuing debate about how best to ...
The aspects of a radioprotection program to be implanted in hospitals to cases of medical treatment to external and internal contamined people are presented. It is based in the experience acquired in the coordination of radioprotection of the Marcilio Dia...
This article focuses on the relational and developmental aspects of young children's post-traumatic stress reactions to specific events such a terrorists attacks, car accidents, or single traumatic medical interventions. PMID:15325488
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In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station disaster, most of the lessons being learned are about the technical, radiological, environmental, and medical consequences of that event. Although these aspects are significant, broader social and psychological factors greatly contributed to the catastrophe. These cultural issues were the ...
... systems work and be familiar with legal and insurance aspects of care. Also, ... the group in accident prevention. In some ways, their role seems to ... ...
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... critical aspects of the aircraft accident investigation preferably ... PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS, SAFETY, AVIATION ACCIDENTS, DATA ACQUISITION ...
... Accession Number : ADA124134. Title : Human Factors Aspects of Aircraft Accidents. Corporate Author : ADVISORY GROUP ...
... Accession Number : AD0775208. Title : Behavioural Aspects of Aircraft Accidents. Descriptive Note : Conference proceedings,. ...
The results of medical examinations of the persons taking part in elimination of consequences of Chernobyl's disaster obtained by the specialists of Military-medical academy allowed to verify the conception of damage action of radiation and nonradiation complex of injury factors, to estimate well-information of stale and new biological indicators of ...
... Radiation on Behavior and the Brain; Nuclear Weapons Accident Response Procedure; Management of Radiation Accidents; Medical Operations ...
A system of dosimetry for persons involved in accidental criticality excursions is presented as part A of a two part report. The information is arranged to be useful as a reference for those responsible for implementing the system. Part A also contains a review and re-evaluation of the dosimetry of previous accidents and a synopsis of part B. Pants A and B together ...
... Accession Number : ADA087690. Title : Medical and Toxicological Factors in Aircraft Accidents,. Corporate Author : FEDERAL ...
General aspects of applying the method of retrospective dose estimation by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of human tooth enamel (EPR dosimetry) to the population residing in the vicinity of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site are analyzed and summarized. The analysis is based on the results obtained during 20 years of investigations conducted in the ...
... Title : Aircraft Accidents: Trends in Aerospace Medical Investigation Techniques (Les Accidents d'Aeronefs: les Tendances en Techniques d ...
Many consequences of an illness or an accident that are treated in the form of basic medical practice consequences concerned can either be directly caused by the illness or accident, or result from the ensuing treatment. A physician providing basic medical care is therefore often confronted with traffic medicine ...
The medical care given to a victim of a radiation accident is one aspect of a larger emergency response that involves the establishment of control of the radiation source, prevention of secondary contamination of all persons having contact with the injured, organization of a general evacuation, and panic control. We have discussed the ...
