Evaluation of US Federal Guidelines (Primary Response Incident Scene Management [PRISM]) for Mass Decontamination of Casualties During the Initial Operational Response to a Chemical Incident [PDF]
, 2019 Study objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and operational effectiveness of US federal government guidance (Primary Response Incident Scene Management [PRISM]) for the initial response phase to chemical incidents.
Amer, Nevine +13 more
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Removal of Radioactive Cesium Using Prussian Blue Magnetic Nanoparticles
Nanomaterials, 2014 Radioactive cesium (137Cs) has inevitably become a human concern due to exposure from nuclear power plants and nuclear accident releases. Many efforts have been focused on removing cesium and the remediation of the contaminated environment. In this study,
Sung-Chan Jang +7 more
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Hybrid in vitro diffusion cell for simultaneous evaluation of hair and skin decontamination: temporal distribution of chemical contaminants [PDF]
, 2018 Most casualty or personnel decontamination studies have focused on removing contaminants from the skin. However, scalp hair and underlying skin are the most likely areas of contamination following airborne exposure to chemicals. The aim of this study was
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Optimization of Nonambulant Mass Casualty Decontamination Protocols as Part of an Initial or Specialist Operational Response to Chemical Incidents [PDF]
, 2018 © 2018 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis.© 2018 Robert P. Chilcott, Hannah Mitchell, Hazem Matar. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License ...
Chilcott, Robert P. +2 more
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Journal of Chemistry, 2018 Using isothermal thermogravimetric data of alkali metal salts (CsNO3, CsCl, LiCl, and NaCl), we conducted kinetic analysis on atmospheric evaporation to investigate the effect of meniscus on determining the condensation coefficient.
In-Hwan Yang +2 more
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Decontamination and Management of Contaminated Hair following a CBRN or HazMat Incident [PDF]
, 2019 © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Toxicology.This in vitro study evaluated the “triple protocol” of dry decontamination, the ladder pipe system (a method for gross decontamination), and technical ...
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Safety assessment of the process ‘Plastienvase’, based on EREMA Basic technology, used to recycle post-consumer PET into food contact materials [PDF]
, 2017 Publisher ...
Bolognesi, Claudia +25 more
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Assessment of crisis readiness to move a patient from the airport with suspected Ebola [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this article is to verify the readiness of patient transport from the airport with symptoms for Ebola disease by the rescue services of the Integrated Rescue System of the Czech Republic.
Blahová, Marta, Hromada, Martin
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Assessment of Environmental Contamination and Environmental Decontamination Practices within an Ebola Holding Unit, Freetown, Sierra Leone. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Evidence to inform decontamination practices at Ebola holding units (EHUs) and treatment centres is lacking. We conducted an audit of decontamination procedures inside Connaught Hospital EHU in Freetown, Sierra Leone, by assessing environmental swab ...
Daniel Youkee +10 more
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Using aerosols to decontaminate surfaces from nucleic acids
Microbiology Independent Research Journal, 2023 The occurrence of cross-contamination, which leads to false-positive results when analyzing samples, is an important problem in the PCR laboratory. There are many ways to solve this problem, but none of them is universal.
Viktor V. Kuzin +3 more
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