Gemelli Hospital Emergency Plan for Radiological Accident: role and cooperation of health physicist in contaminated victims management
Journal Title: Biomedicine & Prevention - Year 2017, Vol 2017, Issue 3
Abstract
The aim of this project is to explain the Gemelli Hospital Emergency Plan during a radiological event, which causes the arrival of victims contami-nated with radioactive material. Special attention is given to the radiopro-tection aspects of patient management and to the protection of first re-sponders. The expert in health physics plays a central role in this organization. The health physicist promptly gives details to medical staff about level of patient's external and internal contamination in order to choose the most suitable treatments and to avoid the secondary contamina-tion. Through direct and / or indirect measures the health physicist esti-mates absorbed dose and manages potentially contaminated waste dispos-al. Our plan provides the management of a limited number of patients (n=20). In April 2016 the hospital was involved in a demonstration of the plan within the 'Eden European Project' and treated a potentially contaminated worker from Triga reactor in Enea Casaccia arrived in the hospital.
Authors and Affiliations
Sara De Novellis, Paolo Maurizio Soave, Rachele Brancaleone, Daniele Gui, Sabina Magalini, Luca Indovina, Marco De Spirito
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