Medical Management of Radiation Accidents.

Medical Management of Radiation Accidents: Management of the Acute Radiation Syndrome

Medical management of radiation injuries: current approaches.

The current approach to medical management of irradiated patients begins with early diagnosis of radiation injury. Medical assessment of radiation dose is based on event history, symptomatology and laboratory results, with emphasis on time to emesis and lymphocyte depletion kinetics. Dose assessment provides a basis for early use of haematopoietic growth factors that can shorten the period of n...

Road Accidents - Medical Aid

ROAD ACCIDENTS MEDICAL AID. By Hans Pacy. (Pp. 136; figs. 30. £1.00). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1971. IT is commonplace to observe that the increasing numbers of deaths and disabling injuries due to accidents on our roads are the cause of concern to the public and the profession, and while much has been written on the subject of such injuries, and their treatment, in wellequipp...

Lessons from Major Radiation Accidents

Lessons have been learned from investigations into a relatively large number of accidents that have occurred in three major practices, namely: industrial radiography, gamma irradiators and electron accelerators used in industry and research, and radiotherapy. This paper provides an overview of the lessons learned and specifically considers the human actions and omissions that have resulted in a...

The management of accidents

Purpose: This author’s experiences in investigating well over a hundred accident occurrences has led to questioning how such events can be managed while immediately recognising that the idea of managing accidents is an oxymoron, we don’t want to manage them, we don’t want not to manage them, what we desire is not to have to manage not-them, that is, manage matters so they don’t happen and then ...