IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations Lecture 4 Medical Management of Radiological.

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IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations Lecture 4 Medical Management of Radiological Casualties IAEA Training Material on Occupational Radiation Protection

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties Contents 1. Introduction 2. Basis of medical management on radiation injury 3. Decontamination of skin and hair 4. Management for contaminated skin injury 5. Management for internally deposited radionuclides 6. Diagnosis and medical management of radiation syndromes 7. Psychological support 8. Summary 2

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 1. Introduction 33 Medical management of radiological casualties is important for the emergency workers to understand and therefore relieve their anxiety in relation to medical treatment of high exposure or intense contamination. The first priority of handling victims is to stabilize their physical conditions even if they are contaminated or exposed to radiation. Radiological problems of radiation exposed or contaminated persons can be dealt with any necessary urgent conventional medical treatment. Even the highly exposed victims have time before manifesting illness due to exposure after the prodromal syndrome where vomiting is possible within hours. The latent phase becomes shorter with increasing dose and is at least for two days even in cases of severe exposure. It necessary to estimate the exposed dose for the prognosis and future treatment.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 2. Basis of medical management on radiation injury 44 Deterministic effect: The radiation symptoms or signs can be modified by some treatments after irradiation. Stochastic effect: There are no treatment to change the occurrence probability of the effects. In case of contamination, radiation exposure continues while the radioactive materials are existing on the body surface or in the body. Early decontamination can reduce the radiation dose to the body. This principle is true both for surface and internal contamination.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 3. Decontamination of skin and hair 55 If contamination is found, it is better to be removed as soon as possible and as much as possible. First step for the decontamination is removal of clothes. It stands to reason that clothing typically covers large part of the body, therefore properly removal of the clothing is likely to significantly decrease the amount of radioactive material on the body surface. Skin contamination is wiped and rinsed with water. During this procedures, the operators should exercise caution not to create a skin scratch or an abrasion. Contaminated hair needs to be wiped or washed with water. It is important to avoid drainage water to be splashed around the mouth, the nose, or the eyes. If decontamination is not effective enough, hair cut can be an option on the condition.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 4. Management for contaminated skin injury 66 Most of radionuclides are not absorbed through a normal skin, with an exception of tritium. However, radionuclides can be absorbed through injured parts, or wounds. The radionuclides in wounds need to be removed as soon as and as much as possible to reduce internal contamination. Regular procedure of the wound decontamination is irrigation with normal saline solution or water.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 5. Management for internally deposited radionuclides 77 Main aspects of the procedure for decorporation of internally deposited radionuclides are: Identification of radionuclides and rough dose assessment of the internal contamination is desirable to be obtained before starting treatment for internal contamination. At least one of the following tests should be conducted: Norse smear test; Body surface contamination screening, especially wounds; Measurements by a whole body counter. When the above mentioned tests do not indicate contamination, but internal contamination is still suspected, it is necessary then to carry out bio- analyses for the identification and quantification of radionuclides in the body with urine, faeces and blood samples.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 5. Management for internally deposited radionuclides 88 Some clinical decisions to initiate or not to initiate decontamination, even without the confirmatory tests at hand, are based on: Character of the accident; Radioactive concentration in the air where the workers was present; Toxicity of the drug to be used for decorporation. Decorporation of internal contamination is not an easy task. It is better to decide based on estimated dose if possible, efficiency of decorporation and adverse effect of each treatment. There are only limited decorporation agents which could apply to certain radionuclides.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 6. Diagnosis and medical management of radiation syndromes 99 Cutaneous radiation syndrome (CRS) Especially for non-uniform irradiation, skin injury becomes main concern in some cases. Stage / symptomsDose range [Gy]Time of onset [day] Erythema Epilation> Dry desquamation Moist desquamation Blister formation Ulceration (within skin)> Necrosis (deeper penetration)>25>21

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties Radiation burn; from the Radiological Accident in Yanango, IAEA, April Deterministic Effects

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties Deterministic Effects after Chernobyl Chernobyl experience ARS and radiation burns 11

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 6. Diagnosis and medical management of radiation syndromes 12 Cutaneous radiation syndrome (CRS) Local radiation injury results in skin lesions quite similar to thermal burns. However, thermal burns are different from “radiation burns” in the following aspects: Radiological burns are dynamic; their temporal and spatial evolution is unpredictable and even relatively independent of the initial clinical evolution; Patient do not present initial shock; Pain is not immediate in local radiation injury, but when the pain it appears later it is very severe and resistant? to drug; It is a prognostic symptom which indicates a new wave of clinical recurrence.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 6. Diagnosis and medical management of radiation syndromes 13 Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) A combination of clinical signs and symptoms are occurring phased over a period of hours to weeks due to a significant partial-body or whole body exposure of > 1 Gy, as injury to various tissues and organs. ARS has 4 phases: 1)an initial or prodromal phase occurring during the first few hours after exposure; 2)a latent phase, which becomes shorter with increasing dose; 3)a manifest phase of clinical illness. The time of onset and degree of the transient incapacitation of the initial phase, the duration of the latent period, as well as the time of onset and severity of the clinical phase and ultimate outcome are all, to a variable extent, dependent upon total dose and individual radiation sensitivity. As a rule, the higher the dose, the time of onset of all three phases and their duration shortens while the prodromal and the manifest illness phase become more severe 4)the death or recovery of health conditions

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 6. Diagnosis and medical management of radiation syndromes 14 Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) As a part of diagnosis, exposed dose should be identified. Exposed dose can be assessed by biological methods or physical methods. CategoryBiological methodsPhysical methods Typical methodsClinical symptoms Lymphocyte count Chromosome analysis Reconstruction Work environment assessment Personal dosimeter Dose assessment method for external exposure

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 7. Psychological support 15 When carrying on medical treatment of exposed or contaminated victims, medical staff as well as some relevant persons who come into contact with the patients should always consider psychological aspects of the patients as well as their family members. In most cases psychological aspects are more important than the actual exposure or contamination. Appropriate officials at the national and local levels need to perform the actions needed to arrange psychological support. These actions are to be planned at the stage of preparedness. An example of psychological support can be in the form of story telling of own experience, how the responder behaves to victims, dose encountered versus benefits, assurance that potential risks to be low etc.

IAEA Occupational Radiation Protection during High Exposure Operations 4: Medical Management of Radiological Casualties 8. Summary 16 The responders to a radiation emergency must have confidence that when they follow appropriate procedures, there will be no consequences to them, either directly or indirectly, as a result of providing care for victims. This confidence must also be conveyed to the victims themselves. The responders need to be aware that if an individual has only been exposed to external sources of radiation there is no radiation threat whatsoever to them and precautions for dealing with radioactive contamination are not needed in patient handling and care. If individuals are contaminated only internally as a result of inhalation or ingestion of radioactive material, then they do not present a direct hazard of external exposure to others, unless the intake was extremely large and involves gamma emitters. However, contaminated excreta or vomit can spread contamination to equipment, environment, and attending staff. Using appropriate procedures should prevent spreading of contamination.