Radiation

Critical Care Clinics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 785-813

  Burnham, John W ^a   Franco, Janet ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CALCIUM PENTETIC ACID; CESIUM; CESIUM 137; CHELATING AGENT; COBALT 60; EMETIC AGENT; ENEMA; FERRIC FERROCYANIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 3; ISOTOPE; LAXATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PENTETATE ZINC; PENTETIC ACID; POTASSIUM IODIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RUBIDIUM; STRONTIUM; THALLIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ATAXIA; ATOMIC BOMB; BURN; CHELATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COGNITION; CYTOGENETICS; DESQUAMATION; DEVICE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DOSIMETRY; EDEMA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FATIGUE; FIRST AID; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MOBILIZATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL; ONYCHOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RADIATION; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITOR; RADIATION SICKNESS; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SKIN; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; STOMACH LAVAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS; SYMPTOM; TERRORISM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; DECONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; RADIATION; RADIATION INJURIES; TERRORISM; TRIAGE;

EID: 24944463189     PISSN: 07490704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2005.06.003     Document Type: Review

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