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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on May 8, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2009 134(3-4):159-163; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp077
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Emergency preparedness of Research Center for Radiation Medicine and its hospital to admit and treat the patients with signs of acute radiation sickness

D. A. Belyi1,*, V. I. Khomenko2 and V. G. Bebeshko1

1 State Institution ‘Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine’, Melnikov Street 53, Kiev 04050, Ukraine
2 Kiev Centre for Bone Marrow Transplantation, Prospekt Pobedi 119, Kiev 13115, Ukraine

* Corresponding author: mailto: dbelyi_2000{at}yahoo.com

After the Chernobyl accident, the Research Center for Radiation Medicine (RCRM) was established in Kiev (Ukraine). Its main task was to maintain a high level of emergency preparedness and be ready to examine and treat patients who suffer as a result of hypothetical radiation accident. Based on the previous experience, this institution's specialists worked out new diagnostic criteria and drug treatment schemata for acute radiation sickness, created a database on 75 patients with this diagnosis and improved educational programmes for medical students and physicians working in the field of radiation medicine. RCRM collaborates fruitfully with western partners through the joint research projects and connects with the World Health Organization's Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network centre. Collaboration with Kiev Center for Bone Marrow Transplantation allows RCRM to use aseptic wards having highly filtered air for the treatment of most severely irradiated patients.


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