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- STI PUB 1055 - IAEA
This Safety Report outlines the roles and tasks of health authorities and hospital administrators in emergency preparedness for radiological accidents
- all-incident-response-guides_1 - calhospital. org
Contact appropriate authorities and experts to provide hospital status, and to request support and recommendations for radiological contamination Monitor safe activation of the Radiation Incident Plan and the Decontamination Plan
- Emergency Management of Radiation Accidents
The Joint Committee on Accreditation of Hospitals requires that hospitals have a written procedure to cope with radiation accidents Emergency personnel, specifi- cally, should be prepared to manage radiation accident victims initially
- Major Radiological or Nuclear Incidents: Potential Health and . . .
Radiation and nuclear emergencies may be accidental or intentional and can have wide-ranging effects on the healthcare system Each type of event has different implications for planning and response Table 1 compares and contrasts these different incidents and highlights healthcare system impacts across this spectrum of incident type
- MEDICAL SOCIETIES FORMULATE PROTOCOLS FOR RADIATION ACCIDENTS
Two medical societies have devised hospital guidelines for the emergency treatment of radiation accident victims A Guide to the Hospital Manage ment of Injuries Arising from Expo sure to or Involving Ionizing Radia tion, by the American Medical Asso ciation (AMA), gives instructions for setting up and operating a radiation emergency area
- A Short Summary of Accidents Involving Radiation
• Firstly, and primarily, there is the potential failure to control the initial disease, which, when it is malignant, is eventually lethal to the patient; • Secondly, there is the risk to normal tissue from increased exposure to radiation
- CDC Roundtable on the Identification of Emerging Strategies . . .
Staff who work in an Emergency Department are exposed to certain risks, including ordinary hospital radiation sources; the additional element of risk introduced by a contaminated patient in the Emergency Department is negligible compared with usual daily work place risks
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