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Guidelines on the medical management of tritiated water overexposures
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The Medical Advisers to the Atomic Energy Control Board provide advice to occupational and family physicians treating overexposed workers. GMA-7 provides information and guidance to medical practitioners on the medical management of individuals who have been overexposed to tritiated water. Various treatment principles are presented with special emphasis on techniques for facilitating removal of tritiated water from the body so as to reduce the total radiation dose. Risks and biological effects from exposures to tritiated water and various radiation protection precautions are also discussed. 32 refs., 1 tab
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Lignes directrices pour la prise en charge medicale des personnes surexposees a l'eau tritiee
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 29 p.
- Report number
- INFO--0586F
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 28073612
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CANADIAN AECB; MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION PROTECTION; TRITIUM; TRITIUM OXIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CANADIAN ORGANIZATIONS; CHALCOGENIDES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; TRITIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- GCM--7.