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Medical Management: Countermeasures

Four drugs in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) are specifically designated for use in a radiation emergency. The first three drugs, potassium iodide, DTPA, and Prussian blue, may be used to treat internal contamination. Each countermeasure is specific, not only in the way it works, but also for the radioisotopes it is used to treat. Knowing what countermeasures do and their limitations can help direct the clinical response in a radiation incident. Neupogen, the fourth countermeasure in the SNS, can be used to improve a victim's chances for survival by stimulasting certain types of cells that remain in the bone marrow to produce mature granulocytes -- white blood cells critical to fighting infection.

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