Medical consequences of radiological and nuclear weapons
By: senior editor, Anthony B. Mickelson, MD, colonel, Medical corps, US Army, Director of Military Medical Operations, ARmed forces Radiolbiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services for the Health Sciences
Contributors: Borden Institute (U.S.)
Series: TMM series; Textbooks of military medicine
Publisher: Fort Detrick, Maryland; Government Printing Office
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Borden Institute
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780160916939
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Methods; Radioactive fallout; Nuclear Weapons; Environmental Exposure; Radiation Injuries; Disaster Planning; Adverse effects; Therapy; Nuclear Warfare; Radioactive Fallout
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Radiological events and their consequences / Charles R. Woodruff Jr., Leonard A. Alt, C. Douglas Forcino, and Richard I. Walker; title: Acute radiation syndrome in humans / Ronald E. Goans and Daniel F. Flynn; title: Triage and treatment of radiation and combined-injury mass casualties / Daniel F. Flynn and Ronald E. Goans; title: Treatment of internal radionuclide contamination / John F. Kalinich; title: Therapy for bacterial infections following ionizing radiation injury / Thomas B. Elliott and G. David Ledney; title: Early-phase biological dosimetry / William F. Blakely; title: Behavioral and neurophysiological consequences of radiation exposure / Andre Obenaus, G. Andrew Mickley, Victor Bogo, Bruce R. West, and Jacob Raber; title: Psychological issues in a radiological or nuclear attack / Steven M. Becker; title: Late and low-level effects of ionizing radiation / Alexandra C. Miller, Merriline Satyamitra, Shilpa Kulkarni, and Thomas Walden; title: Radiological considerations in medical operations / John P. Madrid; title: Perspectives in radiological and nuclear countermeasures / K. Sree Kumar, Juliann G. Kiang, Mark H. Whitnall, and Martin Hauer-Jensen; title: Cytogenetic biodosimetry / Pataje G.S. Prasanna and C. Norman Coleman.