Medical prophylaxis for Swiss nuclear workers.

Medical prophylaxis for Swiss nuclear workers is prescribed by law, as for all other persons occupationally exposed to radiation. Medical examinations including questions about the personal history, a physical examination and blood counts take place on entering the job and each year thereafter. Follow-up after leaving the job is not done.

[Industrial medical activities of SUVA (Swiss Accident Insurance Agency)].

The group of occupational medicine of the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (Suva) fulfills functions of standardizing, e.g. setting TLVs, of insurance medicine, i.

Sedimentation versus cytocentrifugation in the cytologic study of craniospinal fluid.

A sedimentation technique for cytologic study of CSF was compared with the standard cytocentrifugation method. Seventy-five samples from 37 children with leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were processed by both methods. Total yield of cells and cytomorphology with differentials were analyzed.

[Preventive medicine activities of Suva].

The Swiss National Accidents Insurance Fund (Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt, Suva) not only has to pay in case of injuries (of both occupational and nonoccupational nature) and occupational disease, an essential duty given by law (Kranken- und Unfallversicherungsgesetz, KUVG) is the prevention of work accidents and occupational disease. The Suva department for Prevention of Accidents (Abteilung Unfallverhütung) is responsible for technical measures; the occupational physicians of the Suva Medicine department (Medizinische Abteilung) are carrying for the medical prevention of occupational diseases which is the item here explained in detail. In 1977, the medical prevention was extended ot a total of 236,000 insured workers.