RADIATION EXPOSURE CONTAMINATION POISONING MERCK MANUALS PROFESSIONAL EDITION LOADING NOT FOUND VIEW CONSUMER EVERYDAY LANGUAGE PROFESSIONAL VERSION DESCRIPTION MEDICAL TOPICS CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE DENTAL THROAT ENDOCRINE AND METABOLIC EYE DISORDERS GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS GENITOURINARY DISORDERS GERIATRICS GYNECOLOGY OBSTETRICS HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY HEPATIC BILIARY INFECTIOUS DISEASES MUSCULOSKELETAL CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS NUTRITIONAL PEDIATRICS PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS PULMONARY SPECIAL DRUG INFORMATION DRUGS BY NAME BRAND DRUG INTERACTIONS PILL IDENTIFIER ALBUTEROL FLUOXETINE HEPARIN METFORMIN DOXYCYCLINE OMEPRAZOLE COMMENTARY RECENT SPECIALTY RIGHT FOR YOU DIET TOXIC METALS DEVICE EFFECTIVE FACE OPTIMAL LENGTH PREGNANCY DIETETIC COUNSELING PROVES KIDNEY DISEASE ALL NEWS EXAMS CASES ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME TINNITUS COUGH LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS CHEST PAIN LEG PAIN SYNCOPE WOMAN CASE STUDIES RESOURCES ABBREVIATIONS AUDIO CALCULATORS CONVERSION TABLES IMAGES LAB NORMAL PATIENT SYMPTOMS PODCASTS TABLES REHAB LANGUAGE ENGLISH FIND WRITTEN HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL THE PROFESSIONAL TAP HERE RADIATION MEASUREMENT EXPOSURE SOURCES PATHOPHYSIOLOGY FACTORS RESPONSE CANCER TERATOGENICITY SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROMES FOCAL INJURY DIAGNOSIS PROGNOSIS PREPARATION EXTERNAL DECONTAMINATION INTERNAL MANAGEMENT PREVENTION PUBLIC ARTICLE INTEREST KNEE SPRAINS MENISCAL INJURIES BRIDGING YOUNG CHILDREN AT RISK HEAD INJURIES FALLING SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF DAVIS CLICK HERE PATIENT EDUCATION IONIZING RADIATION RATE TYPE THE BODY LOCAL SYSTEMIC ACUTE RADIATION SICKNESS HISTORY OF SOMETIMES DETECTION EQUIPMENT RADIONUCLIDE HEALTH CARE WORKERS PATIENTS REVERSE ISOLATION BONE MARROW INTERNALLY CONTAMINATED CERTAIN RADIONUCLIDES UPTAKE INHIBITORS CHELATING AGENTS SYMPTOM SEVERITY LYMPHOCYTE COUNT INITIAL RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS RADIATION THERAPY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES GAMMA PARTICLES BETA PARTICLES ALPHA PARTICLES ENERGETIC HELIUM NUCLEI HIGH ATOMIC NUMBERS CANNOT SKIN BEYOND DEPTH ELECTRONS UNSTABLE ATOMS DEEPLY CAUSE NEUTRONS NEUTRAL NUCLEAR FISSION NUCLEAR TISSUE PENETRATION MILLIMETERS TENS CENTIMETERS STABLE EMISSION ALPHA ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION SHORT WAVELENGTH PHOTONS DEPOSIT ENERGY FRACTION PASS DAMAGE EMIT THE CASE CLOSE GAMMA RAYS CONVENTIONAL UNITS ROENTGEN MEASURING IONIZING ABILITY RADIATION ABSORBED DOSE AMOUNT UNIT OF MASS HIGHER DOSE QUALITY FACTOR EQUIVALENT DOSE ROENTGEN EQUIVALENT IN MAN OUTSIDE THE US THE SCIENTIFIC UNITS GRAY SIEVERT HENCE EQUAL BETA RADIOACTIVITY TERMS NUMBER BECQUEREL THE SI DISINTEGRATION CURIE BILLION INVOLVE IRRADIATION RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION THE UNINTENDED CONTACT RETENTION RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL DUST FALL RUBBED CONTAMINATING OTHER PEOPLE UNINTENDED ENTER INGESTION ONCE TRANSPORTED WHERE IT RISK THE PATIENT INVOLVED SMALL NUMBER THE SOURCE TURNED THE WHOLE HIGH ENOUGH PEOPLE DO NOT NATURALLY OCCURRING ARTIFICIAL AVERAGE ANNUAL EXPOSED BACKGROUND RADIATION COMES COSMIC RADIATION CONCENTRATED THE POLES EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD THE ATMOSPHERE GREATER LIVING HIGH LATITUDES AIRPLANE PRESENCE THE AGE OF THE EARTH BILLION YEARS URANIUM THORIUM DOZEN PROGENY RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPE POTASSIUM PRESENT ROCKS AND MINERALS THUS THE MAJORITY RADIOISOTOPES CARBON RADIOACTIVE DECAY INHALATION RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES NOBLE GAS RADON DECAY SERIES LARGEST PER CAPITA TERRESTRIAL RADIATION EFFECTIVE DOSE MILLISIEVERTS NATURAL PARTS NATURAL BACKGROUND RADIATION RADIATION INJURIES INCREASE EXPERTS THINK VAST MAJORITY MEDICAL IMAGING CONTRIBUTION HIGHEST CT CARDIOLOGY DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES SUFFICIENT RADIATION INJURY THEORETICAL INTERVENTIONAL ENDOVASCULAR VASCULAR EMBOLIZATION CARDIAC TUMOR CAUSED UNDERLYING THE TARGET VERY SMALL RESULTS RADIATION ACCIDENTS FALLOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING ACCIDENTS INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY FAILURE FOLLOW SAFETY STOLEN MEDICAL CARE UNAWARE THREE MILE ISLAND PLANT PENNSYLVANIA CHERNOBYL REACTOR UKRAINE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER FACILITY JAPAN MINIMAL BREACH CONTAINMENT VESSEL HYDROGEN EXPLOSION EVENTUALLY AREA CHERNOBYL PLANT THYROID THE ACCIDENT WORKERS EMERGENCY DIED MONTHS EXPERIENCED ACCIDENT DETECTED FAR AWAY NORTH THE GENERAL POPULATION REGIONS OF BELARUS PERIOD THE EARTHQUAKE TSUNAMI ENVIRONMENT NEARLY FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE INTERVIEWS DOSE RECONSTRUCTION RADIATION EVENT DETONATION OF 2 ATOMIC BOMBS IN AUGUST DEATHS THE IMMEDIATE TRAUMA THE BLAST SMALLER CRIMINAL CASES INTENTIONAL INDIVIDUALS TERRORIST ACTIVITIES REMAINS POSSIBLE SCENARIO CONTAMINATE RADIOTHERAPY DISPERSAL USES CONVENTIONAL EXPLOSIVES DIRTY BOMB TERRORIST SCENARIOS HIDDEN RADIATION SOURCE EXPOSE NUCLEAR REACTOR STORAGE NUCLEAR WEAPON IMPROVISED NUCLEAR DEVICE RADON GAS SOLAR AVERAGE PERSON DIAGNOSTIC NUCLEAR MEDICINE CONSUMER PRODUCTS WEAPONS TESTING INDUSTRY TOTAL AIRLINE TRAVEL FLIGHT CHEST POSTEROANTERIOR MAMMOGRAPHY BODY ABDOMEN BARIUM ENEMA BONE SCAN COUNCIL RADIATION PROTECTION POPULATION OF THE UNITED RE