RE: Misuse, Susan Gawarecki's response

["Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@med.va.gov>]

Gerald,

Yah sure me and my staff do room decon.  [Run a one man shop here]  I always
try to have housekeeping wax the floor prior to a patient.  I don't use
razor blades, any contamination usually comes up pretty easily from a
freshly waxed floor.  Now if we could just wax the toilet and sink.

Thanks for your efforts.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Feldman, Gerald [mailto:gfeldman@msx.ndc.mc.uci.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 11:56 PM
To: 'Vernig, Peter G. '
Subject: RE: Misuse, Susan Gawarecki's response


Peter:

Reading between the lines (or between the tiles), I suspect you are involved
with decontaminating after thyroid treatments.  If it is any help to you, we
have found that it helps to have the custodians put down a double layer of
floor wax before we prep the room.  Should something get past the
plastic-backed paper, we scrape up the coating of wax with a razor blade and
the iodine is gone (most of the time).  After a while, the cracks get filled
up with wax, so even they are not a problem.

Hope this helps.

Gerald Feldman
RSO
UCI Medical Center
Orange, CA
gfeldman@uci.edu


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...BTW I think a campaign to get sheet vinyl flooring made the standard lab
floor would have a lot higher cost benefit ratio than trying to find
root
causes and make corrective actions for misuse of radioactive materials.
99+% of every lab I've been in has 1 foot square tiles with cracks that
accumulate all kinds of stuff, and make decon a night mare if it is
needed.

Any opinions expressed are mine alone and do not necessarily represent
those
of the Denver VA Medical Center, The Department of Veterans Affairs, or
the
U.S. Government.

Peter G. Vernig                
Radiation Safety Officer, VA Medical Center, 1055 Clermont St. Denver,
CO
80220, ATTN; RSO MS 115
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