From the NLM Technical Bulletin:
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) REMM (Radiation Emergency Medical Management) has released new online and mobile versions.
Key updates include:
- Mobile REMM: updated content for Android (new), iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile
- Nuclear Reactor Accidents: new content and references
- Potassium Iodide: new content and references
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): 14 new pages with photos
- Seven new video screencast tutorials explaining key REMM interactive clinical tools
- Nuclear detonation clinical triage tool for use if medical response resources are scarce
- Simplified clinical algorithm for managing radiation exposure: new format and content
REMM seeks to:
- Provide guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment of radiation injury during radiological and nuclear emergencies
- Provide just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information with sufficient background and context to make complex issues understandable to those without formal radiation medicine expertise
- Provide Web-based information that is also downloadable in advance, so that it would be available during an emergency if the internet is not accessible
Keep Current: REMM Update Page