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Radiation accidents : lessons learnt for future radiological protection
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | or disagreem ent in choice of treatment) or manageP urpose: To review major radiation accidents that have occurred ment problems (large numbers of victims or multiple over a 50 year period. To identify com mon factors, since feedback injuries that complicate the choice of management) may prevent recurrence. or, ® nally , because of the scale of the accident. M ethods : Accidents are classi® ed according to the diæ culties Out of these general considerations, a classi ® cation involved in their managem ent and to the delay between their occurrence and their recognition. of accidents emerges that is arbitrary, but above all R esul ts: The rate of severe accidents increases with time, especially takes account of the diæ culties involved in managethose involving the public, and accidents are not always immediment. M anagement w ill depend on the way accidents ately recognized. The real number of serious unrecognized come to light, their extent and the medical and/or accidents is unknown. Human factors, such as lack of elem entary public health problems that they present. This safety rules and inadequate training , play a major role in most of the accidents occurring in industry and in the medical ® eld. approach allows a distinction between accidents that C onclusions: Common sense could have prevented many severe present no special problems, those that are medically accidents that resulted in deaths and serious injuries. Delay in diæ cult to handle and those that bring major the identi® cation of accidents results in severe consequences. resources into play. A separate category includes Pre-planning is essentia l and may minimize the severity and the accidents that are kept secret, generally for military deteriora tion of the situation. Research e å orts in the ® eld of medical hand ling of severely radiation-injured victims should be or political reasons. In each group, there are accimaintained. dents diagnosed from the start and those that are only discovered later. Examples chosen to illu strate this classi ® cation are given in tab le 1, which is in no |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
