10 Radiation Symptoms
Article Sources
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Coma
There are three main syndromes associated with acute radiation syndrome, depending on the radiation threshold: hematopoietic (affecting bone marrow), gastrointestinal (major changes in the digestive system) and neurovascular syndromes. Patients who go into a coma caused by radiation fall within the neurovascular category, which usually takes place with a 30 to 50 Gray exposure.
Other symptoms in this category include convulsions. This level of exposure is almost always fatal and patients can go into a coma within three days. Death follows soon after.5Acute Radiation Syndrome. Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Department of Physics, Stanford University, large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/bae1/
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