Radiation Emergency Medicine

Radiation disaster response: preparation and simulation experience at an academic medical center.

OBJECTIVES A mass casualty disaster drill involving the simulated explosion of a radiation dispersal device (dirty bomb) was performed with the participation of multiple hospitals, emergency responders, and governmental agencies. The exercise was designed to stress trauma service capacities, communications, safety, and logistic functions. We report our experience and critique of the planning, t...

6. Research Center for Radiation Emergency Medicine

Dr. Akashi started his medical career at Jichi Medical School (Tochigi Prefecture) as a junior resident of internal medicine in 1981. He next worked as a senior resident in the Division of Hematology of Jichi Medical School and in 1987 moved to the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UCLA School of Medicine in 1987. He received a Ph. D. from Jichi Medical School in 1988. He has been a staff memb...

Unnecessary Brain CT scan of Traumatic Pediatric Patients; How to Reduce the Numbers?

There are considerable rates of pediatrics trauma referring emergency department following a traumatic event. The worried parents are requesting for the most sensitive diagnostic test, so emergency physicians ask them to underwent brain computed tomography (CT) scan. Lower threshold of decision making regarding use of brain CT scan results in huge number of normal imaging. On the other hand, ra...

Exposure of the hands to ionizing radiation in the resuscitation room of an accident & emergency department.

Exposure of the hands to ionizing radiation in the resuscitation room of an A&E department was measured in eight health care personnel over 3 consecutive months. The radiation levels did not exceed those limits currently recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection 1990. The level recorded in one individual did exceed the level set at the Lothian Health Boards investig...

Skull X-rays after mild head injuries.

FAST and abnormal urinalysis: the effective screening tools in pediatric abdominal trauma

Objective: The present study examines the diagnostic accuracy of abdominal ultrasonography and urinalysis test in children with blunt abdominal trauma, compared with CT scan. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic value of ultrasound and urinalysis test with CT scan as a golden standard diagnostic method in predicting abdominal peritoneal injury in these patients.Methods: Thi...