Re: Guidelines for Protection of Pregnant Nurses

[sergio fierman <sergio@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>]

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 Sergio Faermann Ph.D.                      Tel: 972 - 7 - 400682
 Chief Medical Physicist                    Fax: 972 - 7 - 232336      
 Institute of Oncology                      E-mail: sergio@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
 Soroka Medical Center
    THE MAURICIO SIROTSKI S. LABORATORY for MEDICAL RADIATION PHYSICS
    KUPAT HOLIM HEALTH SERVICES and BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY of the NEGEV 
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On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, sergio fierman wrote:

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>  Sergio Faermann Ph.D.                      Tel: 972 - 7 - 400682
>  Chief Medical Physicist                    Fax: 972 - 7 - 232336      
>  Institute of Oncology                      E-mail: sergio@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
>  Soroka Medical Center
>     THE MAURICIO SIROTSKI S. LABORATORY for MEDICAL RADIATION PHYSICS
>     KUPAT HOLIM HEALTH SERVICES and BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY of the NEGEV 
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> On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, John Goldsmith wrote:
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> > 	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>
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> Dear Prof.Goldsmith,
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> I wonder why didn't you ask first the radsafers that work in the dep. of 
> Oncology of Soroka Med. Center!
> The brachytherapy room for Cs137 procedures has portable lead shielding 
> around the bed of the patient, and for any procedure requiring the direct 
> intervention of the nurse, the work must be done behind the shield. All 
> the nurses involved in the brachytherapy applications were specifically 
> trained, and the maximum time allowed for either Delclos or Fletcher 
> applications was calculated and transmited to the nurses, according to 
> the total activity and time of the implants. For your information, too, 
> pregnant nurses are not required to work in brachytherapy procedures.
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> Yours sincerely,
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> Sergio Faermann
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