(A209) Developing Medical Facility Preparedness for Radiological Hazmat Emergencies: Applying Surge Science
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Editorial: Radiological Emergencies and the Medical Physicist
The events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan prompted an editorial(1) written by Bill Hendee, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Physics, in which he discussed the role of medical physicists as potential volunteers in responding to public health emergencies, especially radiological emergencies of various types. In order to obtain more widespread dissemination of this informatio...
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The widespread damage and loss of life caused by the March 11th earthquake-generated tsunami in Japan, and the resulting emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, raise once again the question of the role of knowledgeable civilians in responding to public health emergencies. In the case of a radiological emergency, medical physicists are among the more knowledgeable individuals...
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متن کاملToward radiological preparedness.
Through the use of focus group discussions, the authors have identified a critical information gap on the part of our nation’s emergency care providers with respect to radiological emergencies. The issues raised in the article highlight the importance of a central source of authoritative information and guidance accessible to providers at the time of an event as well as to those individuals res...
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عنوان ژورنال: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1049-023X,1945-1938
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x11001993