Re: Guidelines for Protection of Pregnant Nurses

[John_Leifhelm@email.fpl.com]

     The embryo/fetus is gestation-limited to a TEDE of 500 mr by 
     10CFR20.1208. As I am on the non-medical side of occupational 
     exposure, I wonder if your grad student will study or otherwise be 
     trained on the risks (statistics) of occupational exposure to herself 
     as well as the unborn child. 
     
     How does the "Radiation Protection" training program at the Hospital 
     deal with occupational exposure?
     
     Is the Cs137 used as a photon source or injested chemical? Does the 
     grad student know the relation between the Curie content (mCi or uCi) 
     of a source and dose as a function of distance from the source?
     
     
     
     Regards.
     
     John Leifhelm, Nuclear Radtiation Protection Training.
     John_Leifhelm@email.fpl.com


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Subject: Guidelines for Protection of Pregnant Nurses
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet-Mail
Date:    7-12-95 05:08


 A graduate student ( a nurse in our hospital ) has
asked me some questions with which radsafers may be able to help. 
Given that nurses caring for patients getting radiotherapy with 137Cs, 
routinely wear film badges, is there any circumstance in which 
radiation exposure could occur which would justify therapeutic abortion?
   John Goldsmith <gjohn@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>