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If the protective raterial comes from another species of animal the protection is
very short lived and not nearly as effective.
In principal the transplantation of
bone marrow would significantly increase the survival rate of éxposed human beings
in the group 2 (Survival possible) and possibly to a lesser extent in the group 1
(Survival improbable) casualties,
The amounts of bone marrow needed are large and
tke mongrel nature of man takes it unlikely that very much could be expected in
the way of long term protective effect.
In my opinion it would be the worst type
of wishful thinking to expect that one could !ave an effective bone marrow bank
in the case of an atomic catastrophe.
Mudiwork is yet to be done under carefully
eontrolled clinical conditions before one could be optimistic about the use of
this procedure in man under highly controlled conditions, for an individual patient
let alone under conditions of a nuclear catastrophe.
However, the treatment of group2 casualties is not at all hopeless
There
is ample clinical experience in conditions where the bone marrow 1s severely depressed and in which there are inadequate numbers of circulating cells.
In these
relatively common clinical conditions produced by sensitivity to drugs, or occurring
naturally as disease processes, the combined use of the wide spectrum antibiotics
that are now available, and the judicious use of blood transfusions significantly
increases the survival time of the individuals, thus giving nature a longer period
of time to repair spontaneously the damages that has been suffered,
Accordingly one
could feel optimistic in respect to increasing significantly the survival rate of
the group 2 (Survival possible) casualties by wide spread controlled use of antibiotics.*
Preparation and stockpiling for such an energency is obviously required,
Group III Survival Probable
This group consists of individuals who may or ray not have hed fleeting nausea
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Blood transfusions would be helpful to a limited extent for anenia.
of availability of enough blood for burns and other injuries is low,
blood may be needed for radiation injury supply may be exhsusted.
The probability
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