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AW: Radioiodine Therapy - Identification Card?



 

 

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Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Jim Hardeman
Gesendet: Dienstag, 04.
Februar 2003 22:46
An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Betreff: Re: Radioiodine Therapy - Identification Card?

 

Bill -

 

Why limit it to only I-131 ... how about ANY radionuclide with a significant gamma likely to hang around in the body more than a few hours? I like the concept ... it's very similar to folks with prosthetics (say artificial hips or knees, or in my Dad's case, even cardiac stints) having a card to get through metal detectors.

 

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Jim,

In Austria patients leaving therapy with I-131 are handed over a leaflet, which tells them the do's and don'ts. (To avoid too close contact with family members, especially children, not to spill their urine in the bathroom in droplets, etc.) Other radionuclides are to my knowledge not adminstered in such quantities, that special provisions should be necessary. Since in Austria police is not equipped with contamination meters, no problems are to be expected.

 

I personally have since a few years also two cardiac stents implanted, the P-32 gone since long, and I can tell you that not a single metal detector at any airport, whether in the USA, Japan, Europe, Mexico etc. has ever detected them. The mass is much too low.

 

Best regards,

 

Franz