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Record Nr.

UNINA9910669015403321

Titolo

Medical consequences of radiological and nuclear weapons / / senior editor, Anthony B. Mickelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Falls Church, Virginia ; ; Fort Detrick, Maryland : , : Office of The Surgeon General United States Army : , : Borden Institute, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-16-091758-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Textbooks of Military Medicine

Disciplina

363.735

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons

Radioactive fallout

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Radiological events and their consequences / Charles R. Woodruff Jr., Leonard A. Alt, C. Douglas Forcino, and Richard I. Walker -- Acute radiation syndrome in humans / Ronald E. Goans and Daniel F. Flynn -- Triage and treatment of radiation and combined-injury mass casualties / Daniel F. Flynn and Ronald E. Goans -- Treatment of internal radionuclide contamination / John F. Kalinich -- Therapy for bacterial infections following ionizing radiation injury / Thomas B. Elliott and G. David Ledney -- Early-phase biological dosimetry / William F. Blakely -- Behavioral and neurophysiological consequences of radiation exposure / Andre Obenaus, G. Andrew Mickley, Victor Bogo, Bruce R. West, and Jacob Raber -- Psychological issues in a radiological or nuclear attack / Steven M. Becker -- Late and low-level effects of ionizing radiation / Alexandra C. Miller, Merriline Satyamitra, Shilpa Kulkarni, and Thomas Walden -- Radiological considerations in medical operations / John P. Madrid -- Perspectives in radiological and nuclear countermeasures / K. Sree Kumar, Juliann G. Kiang, Mark H. Whitnall, and Martin Hauer-Jensen -- Cytogenetic biodosimetry / Pataje G.S. Prasanna and C. Norman Coleman.