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This pocket guide is designed for clinicians, including physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, who will provide emergency care following a radiological event. It should be used as a supplement to training and practice drills. (Prints on 8½" x 14" paper)
Welcome to Learn About Nuclear Weapons! Learn about nuclear weapons is a web-based educational material from the Swedish Physicians against Nuclear Weapons in Swedish, English, Norwegian and Russian. For you who want to learn more about nuclear weapons, its consequences and what you can do to help c...
Hier finden Sie jede Menge interessante Informationen über Atomwaffen. Wie sie entwickelt wurden, was die Folgen der ersten Atombomben-Einsätze auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki waren, die Geschichte des Atomzeitalters seit 1942 und auch viele technische Informationen über das Atom und die Strahlung. Au...
After a radiation emergency, pregnant women should follow instructions from emergency officials and seek medical attention as soon as emergency officials say it is safe to do so.
This infographic contains information about external contamination, internal contamination and radiation exposure.
Radiation emergencies may be intentional (e.g., caused by terrorists) or unintentional. CDC provides some examples of different types of radiation emergencies and information what to do if a radiation emergency happens in your area.
If a radiation emergency happens in your area, you should get inside immediately.
No matter where you are, the safest action to take is to: GET INSIDE. STAY INSIDE. STAY TUNED.
Make sure your family has a plan in case of an emergency. Before an emergency happens, sit down together and decide how
you will get in contact with each other, where you will go and what you will do in an emergency. Keep a copy of this plan in
your emergency supply kit or another safe place wher...
Are you prepared? If a disaster strikes in your community, you might not have access to food, water, or electricity for several days. Preparing an emergency kit for your family is an important step in keeping them safe and healthy during an emergency.
Successful detonation of an improvised nuclear device (IND) would be a catastrophic event, causing an unprecedented number of injuries and lives lost, as well as economic, political, and social disruption. However, an effective medical response and an infrastructure prepared to protect itself from f...
This course has been created for people with some experience in healthcare. It is particularly relevant to students in clinical healthcare professions (such as medicine, nursing, and allied health) and equally relevant to those working in broader disciplines (such as public health, global health, an...
These guidelines provide a recommendation on iodine thyroid blocking (ITB), via oral administration of stable iodine, as an urgent protective action in responding to a nuclear accident. This recommendation aims to support emergency planners, policy makers, public health specialists, clinicians and o...
This Joint Emergency Management Plan of the International Organizations (Joint Plan) describes the
interagency framework of preparedness for and response to an actual, potential or perceived nuclear or
radiological emergency independent of whether it arises from an acci...
This pocket guide offers basic information needed for the medical management of victims of radiation incidents in an easy-to-understand manner.
Mounting an effective international humanitarian response to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) event, especially if the response is undertaken on an ad hoc basis, would be extremely difficult and would pose many risks to the responders. The International Committee of the Red Cro...
