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Radiation injury clinical presentation

Diagnosis. The diagnosis of radiation sickness is based primarily upon the clinical picture presented by the patient. A precise history of exposure may be very difficult to obtain. Dosimetry will not give adequate information to determine either the extent of radiation injury or the prognosis. Dosimeters cannot tell whether a radiation exposure is whole body or partial body. They do not tell what the dose rate of the exposure was. Finally, they cannot differentiate between single exposures and multiple exposures unless read at regular intervals. However, in the... [Pg.50]

The emergency department (ED) physician s interest is aroused by the injuries that are not explained by the patient s story. He consults the local burn center and discovers that the clinical picture suggests radiation exposure. The ED physician is concerned the patient might present a contamination hazard to the staff and has nuclear medicine personnel check him with a pancake probe. The wounds are positive for gamma radiation. The... [Pg.115]


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