RT Book, Section
A1 Blumen, Ira J.
A1 Babcock, Christine A.
A2 Schafermeyer, Robert
A2 Tenenbein, Milton
A2 Macias, Charles G.
A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q.
A2 Yamamoto, Loren G.
SR Print(0)
ID 1105688102
T1 Radiation Emergencies
T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 4e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-182926-7
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105688102
RD 2024/04/24
AB Ionizing  radiation  is  more  dangerous  than  nonionizing  radiation  because  such  reactions  lead  to  breaks  in  both  DNA  and  RNA.There  are  two  categories  of  radiation  injuries  with  which  the  emergency  physician  should  be  familiar:  Exposure  injury,  which  generally  represents  no  threat  to  emergency  care  providers.Contamination,  which  may  represent  a  risk  to  emergency  personnel.Acute  radiation  syndrome  may  develop  following  a  whole-body  exposure  of  100  rad  or  more  that  occurs  over  a  relatively  short  period  of  time.Total-body  irradiation  with  >1000  rad  results  in  a  neurovascular  syndrome.In  the  presence  of  contamination,  if  the  patient's  condition  permits,  decontamination  should  begin  in  the  prehospital  setting.