Publications & Radiation Resources
Resource Documents
Dose Estimates and Other Compendia
To help disseminate the most accurate dose estimates and models, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) has made available several compendia of dose information related to radiopharmaceuticals.
Guidance for Radiation Accident Management
This online guide offers an introduction to the basics of radiation as well as guidance to those responding both at the scene of an accident (prehospital) and at the hospital.
Hospital Triage in the First 24 Hours after a Nuclear or Radiological Disaster (PDF)
This article addresses the problems emergency physicians would face in
the event of a nuclear or radiological catastrophe. It presents information about what
needs to be done so that useful information will be gathered and reasonable decisions
made in the all important triage period.
You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file. The reader may be downloaded free from the Adobe Web site.
Proceedings for "The Medical Basis for Radiation Accident Preparedness IV: Focus on Clinical Care"
Ordering information for the proceedings from REAC/TS fourth international conference.
Package Inserts
Prussian Blue Package Insert (pdf)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
The following articles/abstracts, listed with the most recent ones first, are included in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s online database of citations from biomedical literature. All links will take you directly to the article citation in PubMed. If a journal provides online access to its articles, then the PubMed citation will link to the journal article.
Livingston, Gordon; Falk, Roger; Schmid, E. Effect of occupational radiation exposures on chromosome aberration rates in former plutonium workers. Radiat Res. 2006 Jul;166(1 Pt 1):89-97.
Berger, ME; Christensen, DM; Lowry, PC; Jones, OW; Wiley, AL. Medical management of radiation injuries: current approaches.
Occup Med (Lond). 2006 May;56(3):162-72.
Waselenko, Jamie K., MacVittie, Thomas J.; Blakely, William F.; Pesik, Nicki , Wiley. Albert L.; Dickerson, William E.; Tsu, Horace; Confer, Dennis L. , Coleman, C. Norman; Seed, Thomas; Lowry, Patrick; Armitage, James O.; and Dainiak, Nicholas. “Medical Management of the Acute Radiation Syndrome: Recommendations of the Strategic National Stockpile Radiation Working Group.” Annals of Internal Medicine 140, no. 12 (2004): 1037-1051.
Available as a PDF on the Journal of Medical Toxicology Web site:
Hernon, Christina; Boyer, Edward W.; Christensen, Doran; and Sugarman, Steve. Case Files of the University of Massachusetts Fellowship in Medical Toxicology: Three Patients with an Industrial Radiography Source Exposure. Journal of Medical Toxicology. 2006 December;(2)4: 163-168.