Emergency management of the individuals potentially contaminated by radioactive material and management of the hospitalization path


Submitted: 17 February 2013
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Published: 19 February 2008
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The organization that has to face the radiological emergencies in a nuclear disaster or terroristic attack must be carefully planned. In the hospitals with a level one Emergency Department, it is possible to draw a pathway for the contaminated patients, based on internal resources and on the recommendations of the nuclear medicine associations (as AIMN – Associazione Italiana di Medicina Nucleare; SNM – Society of Nuclear Medicine). The “Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo” hospital in Alessandria is a modern hospital and is the reference of an extended area, for its many highly specialized departments. In this background, and in a hospital with a level one Emergency Department, there are three qualified departments, able to play a primary role in the emergency management of the individuals potentially contaminated by nuclear materials: Emergency Department, Nuclear Medicine Unit and Health Physics Unit. Therefore the Alessandria Hospital is suitable to admit patients potentially contaminated by radioactive material, to determ i n e the level of contamination, to decontaminate them in the emergency decontamination area, to hospitalise and treat them in the nuclear medicine rooms.

Alfredo Muni, Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Aldo Becciolini, Laboratorio di Radiobiologia, Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica, Università di Firenze
Antonio Santoro, Università di Firenze
Angelo Di Giorgio, Istituto geografico militare, Firenze
Ornella Testori, Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Hamed Rouhanifar, Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Roberto Zoccola, Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Daria Valentini, Fisica Sanitaria,Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Donatella Bianchi, ARPA Piemonte, Centro Regionale Radiazioni Ionizzanti e non Ionizzanti, Sede di Alessandria
Giovanni Lombardi, COE 118, Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Dalio Cecconi, DEA. Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Ivo Casagranda, DEA. Ospedale Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Muni, A., Becciolini, A., Santoro, A., Di Giorgio, A., Testori, O., Rouhanifar, H., Zoccola, R., Valentini, D., Bianchi, D., Lombardi, G., Cecconi, D., & Casagranda, I. (2008). Emergency management of the individuals potentially contaminated by radioactive material and management of the hospitalization path. Emergency Care Journal, 4(1), 30–37. https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2008.1.30

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