Published 1988 | Version v1
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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

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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).