Minutes to hours after a nuclear event: available radiation poisoning antidotes and practical considerations on possible urgent approaches.

A nuclear emergency is a type of accident that can expose a highly variable number of people to isotopes and radiation [[1]]. It can take time to identify radionuclides deposited in the environment and to measure the dose adsorbed by a given individual (which decides the need for specific treatments), but treatments must be started promptly to avoid target organ contamination and deposition. The radionuclides absorbed by the thyroid could lead to thyroid dysfunction and thyroid cancer. [Extracted from the article]