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==Module Two:==
===[[ICRP Publication 103]] paragraph 243===
<blockquote>Dose limits apply only in planned exposure situations but not to medical exposures of patients. ... dose limits ... recommended in Publication 60 ... continue to provide an appropriate level of protection. ... Within a category of exposure, occupational or public, dose limits apply to the sum of exposures from sources related to practices that are already justified ...</blockquote>
===[[ICRP Publication 103]] paragraph 247===
<blockquote>Dose limits do not apply in emergency exposure situations where an informed, exposed individual is engaged in volunteered life-saving actions or is attempting to prevent a catastrophic situation. For informed volunteers undertaking urgent rescue operations, the normal dose restriction may be relaxed ...</blockquote>
===[[ICRP Publication 103]] paragraph 248===
<blockquote>For informed individuals of the general public involved in caring and comforting patients released from a hospital following therapy with unsealed radionuclides, the normal dose restriction may be relaxed and such individuals should in general not be subject to the public dose limit ...</blockquote>
===[[ICRP Publication 103]] paragraph 186===
<blockquote>... Once an employer has been notified of a pregnancy, additional protection of the embryo/fetus should be considered. The working conditions of a pregnant worker, after declaration of pregnancy, should be such as to ensure that the additional dose to the embryo/fetus would not exceed about 1 mSv during the remainder of the pregnancy ...</blockquote>
