- Awareness of the potential adverse health effects of Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (RF-EMF) overexposure is critical for all deployed medical providers.
- Early treatment is essential to maximize recovery. Overexposed service members require comprehensive evaluation by a medical provider as soon as possible.
- The most common symptoms are sensation of warmth potentially escalating to pain, profuse sweating, and skin burns if the exposure dose is sufficiently high.
- Life-threatening medical emergencies, permanent injury to the eye and visual system are less common.
- Service members with persistent symptoms or worsening neurological complaints require priority medical evacuation.
- Medical treatment for injuries from RF-EMF overexposure are like the same injuries from other causes.
- Treatment recommendations and proper patient management depend on consistent and timely documentation and reporting of RF-EMF overexposures and injuries.
- Unlike with ionizing radiation, health effects from RF-EMF exposures are not cumulative.