@article{ref1,
title="RENEB accident simulation exercise",
journal="International journal of radiation biology",
year="2016",
author="Brzozowska, Beata and Ainsbury, Elizabeth and Baert, Annelot and Beaton-Green, Lindsay and Barrios, Leonardo and Barquinero, Joan Francesc and Bassinet, Celine and Beinke, Christina and Benedek, Anett and Beukes, Philip and Bortolin, Emanuela and Buraczewska, Iwona and Burbidge, Christopher and De Amicis, Andrea and De Angelis, Cinzia and Della Monaca, Sara and Depuydt, Julie and De Sanctis, Stefania and Dobos, Katalin and Domene, Mercedes Moreno and Domínguez, Inmaculada and Facco, Eva and Fattibene, Paola and Frenzel, Monika and Monteiro Gil, Octávia and Gonon, Geraldine and Gregoire, Eric and Gruel, Gaëtan and Hadjidekova, Valeria and Hatzi, Vasiliki I. and Hristova, Rositsa and Jaworska, Alicja and Kis, Enikő and Kowalska, Maria and Kulka, Ulrike and Lista, Florigio and Lumniczky, Katalin and Martínez-López, Wilner and Meschini, Roberta and Moertl, Simone and Moquet, Jayne and Noditi, Mihaela and Oestreicher, Ursula and Orta Vázquez, Manuel Luis and Palma, Valentina and Pantelias, Gabriel and Montoro Pastor, Alegria and Patrono, Clarice and Piqueret-Stephan, Laure and Quattrini, Maria Cristina and Regalbuto, Elisa and Ricoul, Michelle and Roch-Lefevre, Sandrine and Roy, Laurence and Sabatier, Laure and Sarchiapone, Lucia and Sebastià, Natividad and Sommer, Sylwester and Sun, Mingzhu and Suto, Yumiko and Terzoudi, Georgia and Trompier, François and Vral, Anne and Wilkins, Ruth and Zafiropoulos, Demetre and Wieser, Albrecht and Woda, Clemens and Wojcik, Andrzej",
volume="93",
number="1",
pages="75-80",
abstract="PURPOSE: The RENEB accident exercise was carried out in order to train the RENEB participants in coordinating and managing potentially large data sets that would be generated in case of a major radiological event. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: Each participant was offered the possibility to activate the network by sending an alerting email about a simulated radiation emergency. The same participant had to collect, compile and report capacity, triage categorization and exposure scenario results obtained from all other participants. The exercise was performed over 27 weeks and involved the network consisting of 28 institutes: 21 RENEB members, four candidates and three non-RENEB partners. <br><br>RESULTS: The duration of a single exercise never exceeded 10 days, while the response from the assisting laboratories never came later than within half a day. During each week of the exercise, around 4500 samples were reported by all service laboratories (SL) to be examined and 54 scenarios were coherently estimated by all laboratories (the standard deviation from the mean of all SL answers for a given scenario category and a set of data was not larger than 3 patient codes). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Each participant received training in both the role of a reference laboratory (activating the network) and of a service laboratory (responding to an activation request). The procedures in the case of radiological event were successfully established and tested.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0955-3002",
doi="10.1080/09553002.2016.1206230",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2016.1206230"
}