Once benzodiazepine dependence has been established, a clinician usually converts the patient to an equivalent dose of diazepam before beginning a gradual reduction program.
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Alloantibodies against the Aa blood group are especially potent, and usually produce more severe signs than other alloantibodies when an equivalent dose is absorbed.
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In most places within the city the level of radiation does not exceed an equivalent dose of 1 ?Sv ( one microsievert ) per hour.
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No one expects a " banana equivalent dose " to become an SI unit, but it is a useful comparison, and within its limits it's well defined.
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"The probability of occurrence of a stochastic effect in a tissue or organ is assumed to be proportional to the equivalent dose in the tissue or organ.
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System validation uses non-pathogenic surrogates such as MS 2 phage or " Bacillus subtilis " to determine the Reduction Equivalent Dose ( RED ) ability of the reactors.
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Currently, the ICRP's definition of " equivalent dose " represents an average dose over an organ or tissue, and radiation weighting factors are used instead of quality factors.
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Animal studies have been conducted in which pregnant rats and rabbits were exposed to 12 and 8 times the human equivalent dose based on body surface area respectively.
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Specifically, the ICRP had introduced equivalent dose, renamed the quality factor ( Q ) to radiation weighting factor ( W R ), and dropped another weighting factor'N'in 1990.
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To avoid any risk of confusion between the absorbed dose and the equivalent dose, the absorbed dose is stated in grays and the equivalent dose is stated in sieverts.
