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Radiation Emergency Information for Clinicians and Hospitals
Guidelines & Recommendations
- Guidance for Public Health Departments and Clinicians Caring for Individuals Who May Have Been Recently Exposed to Polonium -210
Includes clinical guidance recommendations - Radiological Terrorism: A Tool Kit for Emergency Services Clinicians
Includes several items that may be useful for emergency services clinicians - Acute Radiation Syndrome: Physicians' Fact Sheet
What physicians need to know about the presentation, diagnosis, & treatment of patients with acute radiation syndrome. - Prenatal Radiation Exposure: Physicians' Fact Sheet
What physicians need to know about diagnosing, treating, & advising pregnant women who have been exposed to radiation. - Cutaneous Radiation Injury: Physicians' Fact Sheet
What physicians need to know about the presentation, diagnosis, & treatment of patients with cutaneous radiation injury. - Radiological Terrorism: Emergency Management Pocket Guide for Clinicians
Printable version of CDC’s quick reference radiological response pocket guide for clinicians. - Interim Guidelines for Hospital Response to Mass Casualties from a Radiological Incident (1.12 MB/98 pages)
Last reviewed for accuracy May 20, 2005
Other Resources
- Roundtable on Hospital Communications: Participants’ Comments, Ideas, & Recommendations - A Summary Report (454 KB/25 pages)
From CDC communications roundtable (Jan 14-16, 2003) on hospitals' challenges in communicating during radiation emergencies. - Use of Radiation Detection, Measuring, and Imaging Instruments to Assess Internal Contamination from Inhaled Radionuclides
Training & Education
- Training: "Radiological Terrorism: Medical Response to Mass Casualties"
A self-study training program for clinicians on immediate medical response to mass casualties following a radiological or nuclear terrorism incident. - Video: Just in Time Training for Hospital Clinicians
Sep 9, 2005
Brief video covering key radiation principles & radiological procedures - Video Webcast: Medical Response to Nuclear & Radiological Terrorism
Feb 10, 2004
Instructs clinicians on how to distinguish between radiation exposure & contamination; recognize the signs & symptoms of acute radiation syndrome & cutaneous radiation syndrome; & decontaminate a patient. - REAC/TS Poster: Radiation Patient Treatment
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Radiation Event Medical Management (REMM) Guidance on Diagnosis and Treatment for Health Care Providers
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Medical Treatment of Radiological Casualties (334 KB/80 pages)
Dept of Homeland Security Working Group on Radiological Dispersal Device Preparedness. - Emergency Department Management of Radiation Casualties PowerPoint (812 KB/40 slides)
Prepared by the Radiological Emergency Medical Preparedness & Management Subcommittee of the National Health Physics Society Ad Hoc Committee on Homeland Security. To best view this presentation, please "Save As" a PowerPoint file. - Medical management of the acute radiation syndrome: recommendations of the Strategic National Stockpile Radiation Working Group
From Annals of Internal Medicine, June 15, 2004
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