[ RadSafe ] Medical Management of Internally Radiocontaminated Patients

[Carol Marcus]

August 3, 2006

Dear Radsafers:

This is to inform everyone of a new manual for hospital personnel relating 
to treatment of patients after a radiological mass casualty event.  This 
manual has something new---a practical way to estimate radionuclide body 
burden in patients so that decisions may be made regarding the use of 
decorporation therapy.

This manual was prepared for the Los Angeles County Department of Health 
Services Emergency Medical Services Agency, and is on their web site.  The 
url, title, and authors are:

<http://ladhs.org/ems/disaster/MMRSManual.pdf>http://ladhs.org/ems/disaster/MMRSManual.pdf

Medical Management of Internally Radiocontaminated Patients

Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D. and Jeffry A. Siegel, Ph.D.
                                        with
Richard B. Sparks, Ph.D., M.B.A., Consultant

                                        June, 2006

While the manual was written for Los Angeles County, much of it is 
applicable to other locales.  If you work in a medical institution, I would 
suggest passing this on to your Emergency Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, and 
Internal Medicine physicians, as well as the people in your institution who 
do emergency planning.

Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.
csmarcus at ucla.edu