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Radiation accidents with multi-organ failure in the United States

¹ Senior Medical Consultant, MJW Corporation and Clinical Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and ² Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, USA

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Lymphocyte kinetics in the 1945 Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL-1 criticality accident.

View larger version (155K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Portable chest radiograph 16 h post event in the Wood River Junction accident. Figure reprinted with permission of the New England Journal of Medicine.

View larger version (205K): [in a new window]   Figure 3. Wood River Junction patient 24 h post accident. Note oedema in the left arm. Figure reprinted with permission of the New England Journal of Medicine.

View larger version (36K): [in a new window]   Figure 4. Time to emesis as a function of dose with exponential fit y=ae–x/b. From the single exponential fit, the parameters (±SE) are found to be: a=12.9±1.2 Gy and b=1.7±0.2 h; r2=0.41.

View larger version (28K): [in a new window]   Figure 5. Time to death as a function of dose for the four US criticality accidents. Power function fit: ln(y)=a+b ln(x); b=–0.84±0.04; r2=0.99.