• Focus: Radiation and Managing Radiological Emergencies

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Development of Models for Emergency Preparedness: Personal protective Equipment, Decontamination, Isolation/Quarantine, and Laboratory Capacity
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: video on decontamination of pediatric patients
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents (free downloads of reference and training materials, including videos)
• American Journal of Emergency Medicine, January 2009: Acute health effects after exposure to chlorine gas released after a train derailment

• Van Sickle, David: references on health effects of chlorine gas exposure

• Annals of Emergency Medicine, September 2003: papers on hazmat/WMD training, PPE, and decontamination (free access)
• Annals of Emergency Medicine, December 2004: papers on portable forced-air and air-filtration systems for improvised isolation facilities during emergencies (free access for abstracts only)
• Annals of Emergency Medicine, June 2005: case report on secondary contamination of emergency dept. personnel (free access for abstract only)
• California EMS Authority Recommendations to Hospitals for Patient Decontamination, Staff Protection, and Evidence Collection, rev. July 2005 (314 kB)
• Israel Medical Assn. Journal, November 2008: Medical management of toxicological mass casualty events
• California Hospital Association decontamination planning resources
• Minnesota Dept. of Health: medical guidelines for hazardous materials exposure (ED-focused)
• OSHA Best Practices for Hospital-Based First Receivers of Victims (guidelines for mass casualty incidents with contaminated patients; free in HTML or 1.9-MB PDF)
• OSHA Hospitals and Community Emergency Response: what you need to know
• OSHA interpretations on hazardous materials response, training, PPE, decon, etc., in healthcare settings (1.8-MB PDF, from Hazmat for Healthcare's site)
• Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, September 2003: Decontamination of mass casualties — re-evaluating existing dogma (free download)

Radiation and Managing Radiological Emergencies

• American College of Radiology radiological preparedness guide (479 kB)
• Annals of Emergency Medicine, February 2009: ASPR's integrated medical response plan for radiologic/nuclear event (free access)
• CDC information on radiation emergencies: detection, decontamination, casualty management, equipment, protective actions for the public
• CDC "just-in-time" radiological training video for clinicians
• CDC radiological emergency pocket guide for clinicians
• CDC training video for using hand-held equipment to screen for radiological contamination
• Health Physics Society resources for medical management of radiological terrorism incidents
• Health Physics, November 2008: Risk communication considerations for mass screenings for potential radioactive contamination (free abstract)
• Homeland Security Council, January 2009: Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation (free access)
• US Dept. of Health & Human Services Radiation Event Medical Management