Manual on the medical management of individuals involved in radiation accidents.

Guidance manual

Spiral bound

Section 1: Radiation accidents: their causes and incidence -- Accidents with external sources -- Accidents with radioactive contamination -- Incidence of radiation accidents -- The response to radiation accidents -- Response at the scene of an accident -- Response at the hospital -- Assessment of doses received from external exposure -- Injuries arising from external exposure and their treatments -- The acute radiation syndrome -- Local radiation injury -- Combined injury -- Monitoring of individuals for radioactive contamination -- General radiation monitoring procedures -- Monitoring of extermal contamination -- Other relevant action -- Monitoring of internal contamination -- Control of radioactive contamination in a hospital -- Protective clothing -- Facilities required -- Procedures to minimise contamination and exposure -- Treatment of contaminated patients -- External contamination -- Internal contamination -- Hospital planning for management of radiation accident patients -- Formulation of plans -- Counselling and communication -- Section 2: Radiation physics -- Atomic structure -- Radiation instrumentation -- Ionisation detectors -- Radiation biology -- Radiation damage to cells -- Biokinetics of radioactive contamination -- External contamination -- Internal contamination