Emergency Medical/Public Health Response for Nuclear Events
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 3544
Special Issue Editor
Interests: emergency management of mass casualty scenarios, including casualty distributions for nuclear, chemical, radiological, and explosive events
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is focused on the prediction, evaluation, triage, treatment, and other management strategies for preparing and responding to nuclear events. Recent advances in pharmaceutical intervention, triage approaches to mass casualties, estimation of nuclear event casualty distributions, large-scale thermal burn treatment, mental health issues for potential radiation exposure, and other approaches need to be evaluated and integrated for responding to a nuclear detonation in a populated area. For this Special Issue of IJERPH, we invite papers that reflect these developments that will better enable the medical and public health community to develop, train, and deploy a credible response to this difficult emergency management issue for which there is an increasing concern.
Prof. Dr. Cham Dallas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nuclear detonation
- radiation
- thermal burns
- mass casualty
- population triage
- pharmaceutical stockpile
- mental health
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