RE: A Question for Power Reactor Types

[alstonchris@netscape.net]

I hope this isn't a reiteration, but it's not in my "Sent" file.





>At a hospital where I worked during the mid-90's, we figured that we saved ~US$1200 per day, when we could rule out a myocardial infarction (MI) as the cause of chest pain, in the ER, without admitting the pt.  Note though, that it's effectively a stress test, so you're using Tc-99m (say, as Cardiolite), not Tl-201 (at least that I've ever heard).

>

>Also, they're starting to use Tl-201 for oncologic scans now.  That goes along with John's observation about the aging population.

>

>I find it *really* hard to believe that anyone's getting enough moly breakthrough in a tech dose to give photon flux rates that set off portal monitors.  Plus, the phenomenon would have to be very widespread, wouldn't it?

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>It's more likely that the pts were given more than one radiopharmaceutical, the classic example (again) being cardiac studies in which the pt gets thallium for the resting phase, and tech-99m for the stressed phase.

>

>I await the slings and arrows

>Cheerio

>cja



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