Re: Outpatient (Na)I-131 Therapies

[carol marcus <csmarcus@ucla.edu>]

At 05:41 PM 11/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Folks
>
>You might be interested in an article in the J Nucl Med of  this November 
>(Vol 41 No 11, 1868 - 1875):
>Coover LR, Silberstein EB, Kuhn PJ, and Graves, MW.  Therapeutic I131 in 
>Outpatients: A Simplified Method Conforming to the Code of Federal 
>Regulations, Title 10, Part 35.75.
>
>I haven't done more than scan it, as yet, but it looks quite useful.  I do 
>note that it seems to rely entirely on calculated exposure rates, i.e., 
>those estimated using the exposure rate constant for I131, with no 
>allowance for patient self-absorption, rather than measured exposure 
>rates.  Also, the paper solely addresses the issue of external exposures of 
>others, by the patient, and not the question of whether it's sensible, from 
>the risk management POV, to release a patient without allowing a few 
>half-times for stomach clearance.
>
>Cheers
>cja
>
>P.S.  I offered to send one of the Medphysers some pages from ICRP 54.  Now 
>my email archives have been trashed (yes, Virginia, no backup), so I've 
>lost her address.  If she'd care to send it to me again, I promise to use 
>it, before another calamity occurs.
>
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Dear Radsafers:

This paper is currently being massacred by some very strong medical
physicists.  Don't fall in love with it.  Even peer-reviewed journals
sometimes screw up.

Ciao, Carol

Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.
Member of the Editorial Board of J. Nucl. Med., 1986-1999

<csmarcus@ucla.edu>

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