Preparing for a “dirty bomb” attack: the optimum mix of medical countermeasure resources

Table 2 Number of monitoring portals or whole-body counters (N) associated with economic efficiency and corresponding costs of a statistical life year saved depending on the percentage of potentially contaminated victims actually needing decorporation treatment

	Cesium-137 monitoring portal		Americium-241 whole-body counter
	N	€/year	N	€/year
0.01%	6	2,183,833	25	31,336,742
0.1%	6	229,312	25	3,141,834
1.0%	6	33,860	25	322,343
10%	6	14,315	20	40,212
25%	6	13,012	20	21,314
50%	3	12,565	15	14,932
75%	3	12,402	10	12,609
90%	2	12,341	5	11,636
100%	0	12,280	0	10,529

Assumptions: Scenario with 60,000 potentially contaminated people; purchasing cost of a monitoring portal 100,000 € and screening capacity of 10,000 people/day and unit; purchasing cost of a whole-body counter 500,000 € and screening capacity of 100 people/day and unit. Antidote requirements depending on screening capacities and percentage of victims needing treatment calculated according to the algorithm described in [23]

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