Scientific rationale of the system to protect mental health in radiation emergency events (on the experience of the Chernobyl catastrophe)
Author: K.N. Loganovsky, M.A. Bomko, S.A. Chumak
Reference: Психиатрия, психотерапия и клиническая психология (Psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical psychology), 2012
Keywords: cerebrovascular disease, organic mental disorders, depression, neurotic stress-related and somatoform disorders, protection measures
Abstract: In the victims of the Chernobyl disaster, especially the liquidators, revealed an excess of cerebrovascular disease, organic mental disorders, depression, neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders and alcohol dependence. Progredient character of the flow of the disease is confirmed. We have developed models for mental health care in radiation accidents and radiological terrorist attacks, differentiated algorithms of the provision of neuropsychiatric intensive care, in the structure of medical response in such events, and block model for neuropsychiatric intensive assistance for victims of radiological emergencies.
URL:http://www.recipe.by/izdaniya/periodika/psihiatriya/archiv/ppkp_2_2012/Original/1339967617.html