Citation

Williams G, O'Malley M. Injury 2010; 41(9): 943-947.

Affiliation

University Hospital (Walsgrave Site), Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2DX, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.injury.2010.01.103

PMID

20149372

Abstract

The capacity for surgical teams to respond appropriately to the consequences caused by the detonation of a radiological dirty bomb will be determined by prior knowledge, familiarity and training for this type unique terrorist event. This paper will focus on the surgical aspects of this scenario with particular emphasis on the management of combined trauma-radiological injury. The paper also describes some of the more serious explosion-contamination incidents from nuclear industrial sources, summarizes learning points and parallels taken from these scenarios in relation to subject of a radiological dirty bomb and describes the likely radioactive substances involved.

Language: en