Published 1988
| Version v1
Book
Medical treatment of whole-body overexposed individuals
- 1. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Fontenay-aux-Roses, 92 (France). Inst. de Protection et de Surete Nucleaire
Description
A severely irradiated casualty is a person who has received a radiation dose of a level such as to endanger his or her life. The whole-body dose which kills 50% of victims within two months lies somewhere between 2.5 and 5 Gy. The differences in dose separating probable survival (mortality lower than 10% for example) from more or less certain death (mortality of over 90% for example) is small because the dose to the bone marrow has to increase from 2 to 5 Gy. The hematopoietic bone marrow is one of the most sensitive organs to radiation. After a latent period (the higher the dose, the shorter this phase), signs of medullary hypoplasia or aplasia appear; their intensity is related to the mean absorbed dose to the bone marrow
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press.
- Imprint Place
- Sydney (Australia)
- ISBN
- 0 08 03441 0 (v.2)
- Imprint Title
- Radiation protection practice
- Imprint Pagination
- 3 v.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 814-817.
Conference
- Title
- 7. international congress of the International Radiation Protection Association.
- Dates
- 10-17 Apr 1988.
- Place
- Sydney (Australia).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Australia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Australia
- INIS RN
- 20044813
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACUTE IRRADIATION; ANEMIAS; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR; CONTAMINATION; DIAGNOSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; FEEDING; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; LETHAL RADIATION DOSE; POST-IRRADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION ACCIDENTS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION SYNDROME; TRANSFUSIONS; TRANSPLANTS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ACUTE EXPOSURE; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; BODY FLUIDS; DISEASES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EXTERNAL IRRADIATION; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HEMIC DISEASES; INJURIES; IRRADIATION; LETHAL DOSES; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; MATERIALS; MEDICINE; ORGANS; POWER REACTORS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION EFFECTS; REACTORS; SYMPTOMS; THERAPY; THERMAL REACTORS; TISSUES; WATER COOLED REACTORS