The medical management of individuals involved in a nuclear or radiological emergency requires specially trained personnel. The lessons learned from previous radiation emergencies have demonstrated that the medical management of these individuals requires a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals, which is essential for an effective response.
In most hospitals, the clinical team includes medical physicists with special responsibility for the proper and safe application of ionizing radiation. Medical physicists have in-depth knowledge of radiation dosimetry, dose reconstruction and the dose assessment procedures
performed daily. Thus, they constitute a unique group of professionals who can join medical teams and, with the appropriate training, provide appropriate support for emergency preparedness and response teams.
This guide includes basic information and references, presented in a user-friendly format, to assist specially trained medical physicists in supporting the response to a nuclear or radiological emergency. In addition to providing information on nuclear or radiological emergencies, this guide also describes the basic components of a response kit for medical physicists involved in responding to a nuclear or radiological emergency.
Some sections of this publication were developed under the NA/21 Project, supported by the Government of Japan, as part of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, in cooperation with the International Organization for Medical Physics.
The IAEA acknowledges the endorsement of this publication by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, European Association of Nuclear Medicine, International Association of Radiopathology, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Organization for Medical Physics and Latin American Association of Societies of Nuclear Medicine and Biology.
The IAEA officers responsible for this publication were E.D. Herrera Reyes of the Incident and Emergency Centre and T. Berris and A. Meghzifene of the Division of Human Health.
Nguồn tài liệu: https://www.iaea.org/publications/13388/pocket-guide-for-medical-physicists-supporting-response-to-a-nuclear-or-radiological-emergency