We often hear the term, “radiation emergency medicine.” What kind of medical care is this?

We often hear the term, “radiation emergency medicine.”What kind of medical care is this?

Radiation emergency medicine is comprehensive medical care that is given to relieve symptoms and to save lives when people are exposed to a high dose of radiation due to an unexpected accident or other causes. One recent famous incident is the 1999 criticality accident at JCO’s nuclear-fuel processing plant in Tokaimura, Japan. In addition to this, there have been a number of reports on radiation exposure accidents in the world due to such reasons as lost radioactive materials for nondestructive tests.

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