Educating medical staff about responding to a radiological or nuclear emergency
| Autor: | Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, Elizabeth H. Donnelly, Armin Ansari, Florie E. Tucker, Maire Holcombe, Charles W. Miller, Robert C. Whitcomb, Amy Guinn, M. Carol McCurley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Epidemiology
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Basic skills Radiation Protection Injury prevention medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Nuclear Weapons Emergency management business.industry Human factors and ergonomics Civil Defense medicine.disease United States Personnel Hospital Radiological weapon Terrorism Medical emergency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S Emergencies business Health Physics |
| Zdroj: | Health physics. 96(5 Suppl 2) |
| ISSN: | 1538-5159 |
| Popis: | A growing body of audience re- search reveals medical personnel in hospitals are unprepared for a large-scale radiological emergency such as a terrorist event involving radioactive or nuclear materials. Also, medi- cal personnel in hospitals lack a basic under- standing of radiation principles, as well as diagnostic and treatment guidelines for radi- ation exposure. Clinicians have indicated that they lack sufficient training on radiolog- ical emergency preparedness; they are poten- tially unwilling to treat patients if those patients are perceived to be radiologically contaminated; and they have major concerns about public panic and overloading of clinical systems. In response to these findings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a tool kit for use by hospital medical personnel who may be called on to respond to unintentional or intentional mass-casualty radiological and nuclear events. This tool kit includes clinician fact sheets, a clinician pocket guide, a digital video disc (DVD) of just-in-time basic skills training, a CD-ROM training on mass-casualty manage- ment, and a satellite broadcast dealing with medical management of radiological events. CDC training information emphasizes the key role that medical health physicists can play in the education and support of emer- gency department activities following a radio- logical or nuclear mass-casualty event. Health Phys. 96(Supplement 2):S50-S54; 2009 |
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