04050nam 2200733Ia 450 991095423230332120251017110107.00-309-14396-997866122749781-282-27497-X0-309-13089-1(CKB)1000000000789200(EBL)3378516(SSID)ssj0000106673(PQKBManifestationID)11133872(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106673(PQKBWorkID)10110458(PQKB)10805600(MiAaPQ)EBC3378516(Au-PeEL)EBL3378516(CaPaEBR)ebr10327029(CaONFJC)MIL227497(OCoLC)923280620(DNLM)1518372(BIP)53858062(BIP)27359766(EXLCZ)99100000000078920020090818d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAssessing medical preparedness to respond to a terrorist nuclear event workshop report /Committee on Medical Preparedness for a Terrorist Nuclear Event ; Georges C. Benjamin, Michael McGeary, and Susan R. McCutchen, editors ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies1st ed.Washington, D.C. National Academies Pressc20091 online resource (189 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-309-13088-3 Includes bibliographical references (p.110-114).""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""Workshop Report""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agendas""; ""Appendix B: Registered Workshop Attendees""; ""Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Panelists""; ""Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Consultant, and Staff""A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists-even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less-would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwhelming for local emergency response and health care systems to rescue and treat, even assuming that these systems and their personnel were not themselves incapacitated by the event. The United States has been struggling for some time to address and plan for the threat of nuclear terrorism and other weapons of mass destruction that terrorists might obtain and use. The Department of Homeland Security recently contracted with the Institute of Medicine to hold a workshop, summarized in this volume, to assess medical preparedness for a nuclear detonation of up to 10 kilotons. This book provides a candid and sobering look at our current state of preparedness for an IND, and identifies several key areas in which we might begin to focus our national efforts in a way that will improve the overall level of preparedness.Disaster medicineUnited StatesEmergency managementUnited StatesEmergency medical servicesUnited StatesRadiation injuriesUnited StatesTerrorismHealth aspectsUnited StatesDisaster medicineEmergency managementEmergency medical servicesRadiation injuriesTerrorismHealth aspects362.196Benjamin Georges1852428McCutchen Susan R1852429McGeary Michael G. H1806426Institute of Medicine (U.S.).Committee on Medical Preparedness for a Terrorist Nuclear Event.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954232303321Assessing medical preparedness to respond to a terrorist nuclear event4447559UNINA