CDC STACKS serves as an archival repository of CDC-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other public health information authored or co-authored by CDC or funded partners.
As a repository, CDC STACKS retains documents in their original published format to ensure public access to scientific information.
i
Guidelines for handling decedents contaminated with radioactive materials
-
2007
[PDF-1.40 MB]
Details:
-
Personal Author:
-
Corporate Authors:
-
Description:"Detonation of a nuclear weapon or activation of a radiological dispersal device could cause radioactively contaminated decedents. These guidelines are designed to address both of these scenarios. They could also be applicable in other instances where decedents' bodies are contaminated with radioactive material (e.g. reactor accidents, transportation accidents involving radioactive material, or the discharge of a decedent from a hospital after injection or implantation of a radiopharmaceutical). These guidelines suggest ways for medical examiners, coroners, and morticians to deal with loose surface contamination, internal contamination, or shrapnel on or in decedents' bodies.Detonation of a nuclear weapon or activation of a radiological dispersal device could cause radioactively contaminated decedents. These guidelines are designed to address both of these scenarios. They could also be applicable in other instances where decedents' bodies are contaminated with radioactive material (e.g. reactor accidents, transportation accidents involving radioactive material, or the discharge of a decedent from a hospital after injection or implantation of a radiopharmaceutical). These guidelines suggest ways for medical examiners, coroners, and morticians to deal with loose surface contamination, internal contamination, or shrapnel on or in decedents' bodies." - p. 1
CDC-INFO Pub ID 998831
-
Content Notes:998831
prepared by Charles M. Wood, Frank DePaolo, R. Doggett Whitaker.
Publication date from "created" and "modified" dates in document properties.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-20) and selected bibliography (p. 20).
Available via the World Wide Web.
-
Subjects:
-
Document Type:
-
Genre:
-
Place as Subject:
-
Pages in Document:print; {electronic resource}; remote; 21 p. : digital, PDF file (1.09 MB, 23 p.)
-
Collection(s):
-
Main Document Checksum:
-
Download URL:
-
File Type: