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The most important point in radiation emergency medicine is the proper understanding of the difference between exposure and contamination by all the staff involved in transport, examination, and treatment of the patients, regardless of their specialty such as orthopedic surgery.
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Tokunaga, H. (2016). Nuclear Disasters. In: Wolfson, N., Lerner, A., Roshal, L. (eds) Orthopedics in Disasters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48950-5_12
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