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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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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Fukui Faculty of Medical Sciences, 1-161 Shinnaruka, Maruoka-cho, Sakai-city, Fukui, 910-0337, Japan

    Hironobu Tokunaga

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  1. Department of Orthopedics, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

    Nikolaj Wolfson

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Bar Ilan Univ, Ziv Medical Ctr, Zefat, Israel

    Alexander Lerner

  3. Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma, Clinical and Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

    Leonid Roshal

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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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