JOURNAL DESCRIPTION
The Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety journal ISSN 1024-6177 was founded in January 1956 (before December 30, 1993 it was entitled Medical Radiology, ISSN 0025-8334). In 2018, the journal received Online ISSN: 2618-9615 and was registered as an electronic online publication in Roskomnadzor on March 29, 2018. It publishes original research articles which cover questions of radiobiology, radiation medicine, radiation safety, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and scientific reviews. In general the journal has more than 30 headings and it is of interest for specialists working in thefields of medicine¸ radiation biology, epidemiology, medical physics and technology. Since July 01, 2008 the journal has been published by State Research Center - Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency. The founder from 1956 to the present time is the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, and from 2008 to the present time is the Federal Medical Biological Agency.
Members of the editorial board are scientists specializing in the field of radiation biology and medicine, radiation protection, radiation epidemiology, radiation oncology, radiation diagnostics and therapy, nuclear medicine and medical physics. The editorial board consists of academicians (members of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS)), the full member of Academy of Medical Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, corresponding members of the RAS, Doctors of Medicine, professor, candidates and doctors of biological, physical mathematics and engineering sciences. The editorial board is constantly replenished by experts who work in the CIS and foreign countries.
Six issues of the journal are published per year, the volume is 13.5 conventional printed sheets, 88 printer’s sheets, 1.000 copies. The journal has an identical full-text electronic version, which, simultaneously with the printed version and color drawings, is posted on the sites of the Scientific Electronic Library (SEL) and the journal's website. The journal is distributed through the Rospechat Agency under the contract № 7407 of June 16, 2006, through individual buyers and commercial structures. The publication of articles is free.
The journal is included in the List of Russian Reviewed Scientific Journals of the Higher Attestation Commission. Since 2008 the journal has been available on the Internet and indexed in the RISC database which is placed on Web of Science. Since February 2nd, 2018, the journal "Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety" has been indexed in the SCOPUS abstract and citation database.
Brief electronic versions of the Journal have been publicly available since 2005 on the website of the Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety Journal: http://www.medradiol.ru. Since 2011, all issues of the journal as a whole are publicly available, and since 2016 - full-text versions of scientific articles. Since 2005, subscribers can purchase full versions of other articles of any issue only through the National Electronic Library. The editor of the Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety Journal in accordance with the National Electronic Library agreement has been providing the Library with all its production since 2005 until now.
The main working language of the journal is Russian, an additional language is English, which is used to write titles of articles, information about authors, annotations, key words, a list of literature.
Since 2017 the journal Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety has switched to digital identification of publications, assigning to each article the identifier of the digital object (DOI), which greatly accelerated the search for the location of the article on the Internet. In future it is planned to publish the English-language version of the journal Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety for its development. In order to obtain information about the publication activity of the journal in March 2015, a counter of readers' references to the materials posted on the site from 2005 to the present which is placed on the journal's website. During 2015 - 2016 years on average there were no more than 100-170 handlings per day. Publication of a number of articles, as well as electronic versions of profile monographs and collections in the public domain, dramatically increased the number of handlings to the journal's website to 500 - 800 per day, and the total number of visits to the site at the end of 2017 was more than 230.000.
The two-year impact factor of RISC, according to data for 2017, was 0.439, taking into account citation from all sources - 0.570, and the five-year impact factor of RISC - 0.352.
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2016. Vol. 61. No. 2. P. 79-82
MEDICAL PRACTICE ISSUE
G.V. Zhuntova1, T.V. Azizova1, A.V. Ephimov1, E.K. Vasilenko1, N.V. Sotnik1, N.N. Dudchenko2, I.A. Vologodskaya2, E.P. Phomin2
Medical Assistance After Plutonium Intake by a Worker Due to an Emergency Situation During Production Operations
1. Southern Urals Biophysics Institute of FMBA, Ozyorsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Central Medical Sanitary Department No. 71 of FMBA, Ozyorsk, Russia
ABSTRACT
We consider a case of 239Pu intake by a worker as a result of a production manufacturing unit rupture during repair operations. The worker received a contused wound of an index finger of his right hand and anterior abdominal wall contusion. The initial 239Pu burden in the areas of finger and abdominal skin injuries were 2000 and 40 kBq, respectively. The committed effective dose from internal radiation over 50 years (CED50) assuming the complete transfer of the measured 239Pu burden from original site of the intake into body fluids and eventual accumulation in main organs of deposition was 54 Sv. Radionuclide-contaminated tissues of the finger and the anterior abdominal wall were excised; however it became necessary to amputate the index finger of the right hand to avoid potentially harmful contamination. A dosimetry screening revealed that injured skin was not the only route by which 239Pu entered the worker’s body, but respiratory and digestive organs were also involved. The duration of chelation therapy (5 % pentacin solution) was 4 months. The final estimate of CED50 from internal radiation based on data on natural excretion of actinides was 25 ± 11 mSv. Thus, timely specialized medical assistance allowed avoiding significant transfer of 239Pu from the sites of original deposition to the worker’s body and decreasing the dose from internal alpha-radiation by a large factor.
Key words: plutonium intake, incident, pentacin
REFERENCES
- Plutonii. Radiatsionnaya bezopasnost'. Il'in L.A. (ed.). Moscow: IzdAT. 2005. 416 p. (In Russ.).
- International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Human respiratory tract model for radiological protection. ICRP Publication 66. Annals of the ICRP. Oxford. Pergamon Press. 1994. Vol. 24. No. 1-3. 482 p.
- International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Limits on intakes of radionuclides by workers. ICRP Publication 30. Part 1. Annals of the ICRP. Oxford. Pergamon Press. 1979. Vol. 2. No. 3/4. 84 p.
- International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Age dependent doses to members of the public from intake of radionuclides: ingestion dose coefficients. ICRP Publication 67. Part 2. Annals of the ICRP. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1993. Vol. 23. No. 3/4. 450 p.
- National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). Development of a biokinetic model for radionuclidecontaminated wounds and procedures for their assessment. dosimetry and treatment. NCRP Report No. 156. Bethesda. Maryland. NCRP. 2007. 411 p.
- United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). Summary of Radiation Effects. New York. 2010.
- Sokolnikov M.E., Gilbert E.S., Preston D.L. et al. Lung. Liver and bone cancer mortality in Mayak workers. Int. J. Cancer. 2008. Vol. 123. No. 4. P. 905-911.
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Cytogenetic Dosimetry: Applications in Preparedness for and Response to Radiation Emergencies. Vienna: IAEA. 2011. 247 p.
- Sotnik N.V., Azizova T.V., Osovets S.V. Strukturnye povrezhdeniya genoma u rabotnikov plutonievogo proizvodstva. Radiats. biologiya. Radioekologiya. 2011. Vol. 51. No. 2. P. 1-5. (In Russ.).
- Johansson M., Jin Y., Mandahl N. et al. Cytogenetic analysis of short-term cultured squamous cell carcinomas of the lung. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 1995. No. 81. P. 46-55.
- Durbin P.W., Kullgren B., Xu J., Raymond K.N. Development of decorporation agents for the actinides. Radiat. Protect. Dosim. Vol. 79, p. 433-443.
- Lloyd R.D., Boseman J.J., Taylor G.N. et al. Decorporation from beagles of a mixture of monomeric and particulate plutonium using Ca-DTPA and Zn-DTPA: dependence upon frequency of administration. Health Phys. 1978. Vol. 35. P. 217-227.
- Sotnik N.V., Osovets S.V., Scherthan H. et al. mFISH analysis of chromosome aberrations in workers occupationally exposed to mixed radiation. Rad. Environ. Biophys. 2014. Vol. 53. No. 2. P. 347-354.
- A proposed standard system of nomenclature of human mitotic chromosomes. Lancet. 1960. No. 7133. P. 1063-1065.
- Prikaz Minzdravsotsrazvitiya Rossii ot 12.04.2011 No. 302n (red. ot 15.05.2013) «Ob utverzhdenii perechnei vrednykh i (ili) opasnykh proizvodstvennykh faktorov i rabot, pri vypolnenii kotorykh provodyatsya obyazatel'nye predvaritel'nye i periodicheskie meditsinskie osmotry (obsledovaniya). i poryadka provedeniya obyazatel'nykh predvaritel'nykh i periodicheskikh meditsinskikh osmotrov (obsledovanii) rabotnikov. zanyatykh na tyazhelykh rabotakh i na rabotakh s vrednymi i (ili) opasnymi usloviyami truda». Minyust RF. 2011. No. 22111. (In Russ.).
- Normy radiatsionnoi bezopasnosti (NRB-99/2009): sanitarnye pravila i normativy SanPin 2.6.1.2523-09. (In Russ.).
For citation: Zhuntova GV, Azizova TV, Ephimov AV, Vasilenko EK, Sotnik NV, Dudchenko NN, Vologodskaya IA, Phomin EP. Medical Assistance after Plutonium Intake by a Worker due to an Emergency Situation during Production Operations. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2016;61(2):79-82. Russian.
PDF (RUS) Full-text article (in Russian)