RE: Treatment of Contaminated Personnel

["Lamothe, Emelie" <lamothee@aecl.ca>]

Contact REAC/TS in Oak Ridge.  

Remind them that contamination will not kill the casualty but that the heart
attack or life-threatening wound will. Another point that I have used when
training our emergency responders is that you don't get  extra brownie
points for a really clean corpse.

Emelie

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> From: 	Jim Casto[SMTP:Jim.Casto@ehs.ucsb.edu]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Wednesday, February 24, 1999 12:32 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Treatment of Contaminated Personnel
> 
> Radsafers,
> Can anyone please direct me to where guidance documents or such can be 
> reviewed regarding emergency medical treatment of personnel who are 
> also contaminated. We were challenged on this recently during a 
> training class where we indicated that emergency
> medical treatment of contaminated personnel should have priorty over 
> concern for potential contamination of emergency responders. What 
> what would be most helpful are guidance documents for non-health 
> physics types (e.g., EMTs, hospital personnel, fire,etc), which I
> can use as a reference.  Our university uses almost exclusively
> low to medium level beta emitters  in typical wet chemistry lab
> operations-our most likely scenario for contamination.
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> -Jim Casto
> ----------------------
> Jim Casto
> Radiation Safety Officer
> Department of Environmental Health & Safety
> University of California
> Santa Barbara, CA. 93106
> (805) 893-3588
> (805) 893-8659 fax
> Jim.Casto@ehs.ucsb.edu
> 
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