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RE: Alarms at Borders
Actually, the Society of Nuclear Medicine already has
taken action.
See
http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=3337&RPID=969
and
http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=556
--- "Sewell, Linda" <LMS1@PGE.COM> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been following this thread with interest. We
> also have experienced a number of issues with our
> own workforce. Being a small area, I was able to
> contact those 3 facilities that administered nuclear
> medicine treatment and talk to the nuclear medicine
> technologists. Now we don't have too many
> surprises.
>
> It seems to me that this is an area where HPS and
> AAPM can help. I have initiated a discussion with
> the HPS about trying to "solve" at least this little
> piece of the problem. We ought to be able to use
> our two organizations to come up with some type of
> informational form that nuclear medicine providers
> could use that can be adopted for use in the US at
> least. Some type of authentication method would
> probably have to be developed, but at least it would
> be a start.
>
> Happy Thursday All,
>
> Linda
>
> Linda Sewell, CHP
> Dosimetry Supervisor
> Diablo Canyon Power Plant
> MS 119/1/122
> PO Box 56
> Avila Beach, CA 93424
> 805.545.4315 (voice)
> 805.545.2618 (fax)
> mailto:lms1@pge.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf
> Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:24 PM
> To: Mccormick, Luke I; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Re: Alarms at Borders
>
>
> Has anyone determined how much this is costing?
>
> --- "Mccormick, Luke I" <luke.mccormick@dhs.gov>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Please spread the word. Our Operating Directive
> > states that each radiation
> > detection at a border will be investigated and
> > resolved. Most all Customs
> > Officers wear pagers and we use a huge number of
> > passive radiation
> > detectors in the form of portal monitors, cargo
> > scanning devices, etc.
> > Everyone who sets off an alarm crossing the border
> > is sent to secondary
> > until the Officers have determined if they are
> > ligitimate.
> > Many, but not all nuclear medicine departments are
> > providing patients with
> > letters explaining that the patients have received
> a
> > radiopharmaceutical
> > and if we have questions to call the
> > doctor/clinic/hospital.For those
> > carrying the documents we simpy verify that the
> > office is ligitimate and
> > call to verify that the person was a patient
> there.
> > We can identify many of
> > the radiopharmaceuticals by thier spectrum on
> site.
> > These people pass
> > through pretty quickly. The people who don't have
> > the documentation are
> > asked for the doctor/clinic name and we do the
> same
> > thing but most do not
> > know the phone number of the clinic so they may be
> > detained for quite a
> > while until we get everything straightened out. If
> > you are a patient or
> > work at a nuc. med. facility, please make sure
> that
> > the paperwork is given
> > to the patients and travel restrictions may cause
> > them some delays.
> > Luke McCormick
> >
> > ____________________Reply
> > Separator____________________
> > Subject: RE: question concerning stress tests
> > Author: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> > Date: 1/12/2005 12:28 PM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hal & Phil,
> >
> > Patients ARE setting off alarms NOW.
> Happens
> > a lot at the
> > NY/Canadian border, day trippers coming
> back.
> > I heard one
> > instance on the Mexican California border
> > near San Diego. So
> > far it seems the detectors are set up at
> > borders and customs
> > stations in airports.
> >
> >
> > Any opinions in this e-mail are solely
> those
> > of the author, and
> > are not represented as those of the VA
> > Eastern Colorado HCS,
> > the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, or the US
> > Government.
> >
> > Peter G. Vernig, Radiation Safety Officer,
> > MS-115, VA Eastern
> > Colorado Health Care System, 1055 Clermont
> > St. Denver, CO
> > 80220, peter.vernig@med.va.gov, Phone=
> > 303.399.8020 x2447; Fax
> > = 303.393.5026, alternate fax,
> 303.393.5248
> >
> > "...whatever is true, whatever is noble,
> > whatever is lovely,
> > whatever is admirable, if anything is found
> > to be excellent or
> > praiseworthy, let your mind dwell on these
> > things."
> >
> > Paul of Tarsus
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> >
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Careway,
> > Harold A. (GE Energy)
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM
> > To: Radsafe (E-mail)
> > Subject: FW: question concerning stress
> > tests
> >
> >
> > Phil sent:
> >
> > Exposures from nuclear stress tests can be
> > considerable, at
> > least to those of us who have to explain
> and
> > justify every
> > last millirem to regulators and activists.
> >
> > Several years ago I had a stress test and
> > made some post
> > treatment measurements with a Bicron MicroR
>
> > meter.
> >
> > Injections of 30 mCi of Tc-99m and 4 mCi
> of
> > Tl-201 result in a
> > cumulative dose of ~600 mrem. Seven (7)
> > hours after
> > treatment, the exposure rate was 17 mR/hr
> in
> > contact with the
> > stomach and 20 microR/hr (twice background)
> > at 30 feet.
> > Exposure rate at stomach level after 2
> days
> > was ~2 mR/hr, and
> > after 7 days was ~0.5 mR/hr. After 3
> > weeks, exposure rates
> > were indistinquishable from background.
> >
> > Yes, at those levels, a lot of patients
> are
> > going to be
> > setting of the increasing number of post
> 9/11
> > radiation
> > monitors in airports, borders, etc.
> >
> > See
>
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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