Re: Treatment of Contaminated Personnel

[David W Lee <lee_david_w@lanl.gov>]

Jim:

        Contact the American Medical Association.  At one time they published a booklet entitled "A Guide to the Hospital Management of Injuries Arising from Exposure to or Involving Ionizing Radiation."  AMA, PO Box 10946, Chicago, IL  60610  This booklet would appear to precisly address your concern.  Best regards  David


At 11:36 AM 2/24/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>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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DAVID W. LEE
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