RE: I-131 Therapeutic Waste

[VERNIG.PETER@FORUM.VA.GOV]

{Original Msg: 'Re: Therapeutic I-131 waste' from <root@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
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{Just add another item to I-131 therapy room decontamination.    If the 
{floor is contaminated,   use adhesive tape to pick up the contamination 
{before using a liquid solution.   Sometimes its small particles that fall  
{on the floor and can easily be picked up with the tape.
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{HANS  RICHTER
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{Murphy's Law:  The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an 
{oncomng train.
 
 
Thought I'd share a "trick".  I have found I-131 contamination comes
up off of the floor pretty easy if you can arrange for your house keep-
ing staff to wax it just prior to papering it and admission of the
patient.
 
Somebody at a VA Conference once told me about a product that could be
applied to the under side of the toilet which, invariably gets cont-
aminated, prior to the patient using it and would "fill up the iodine
holes in the porcelain..." I assume that was with iodine but it's been
a few years now.  I never managed to get back in touch with the person
nor was I able to figure out what it was.  I have the vague idea it might
have been an iodine based disinfectant of some kind.
 
Does anybody out there in Radsafe Land know of this or a similar trick
to keep the I-131 out of the unglazed porcelain under the lip of a toilet?
Inquiring minds want to know!->
 
REGARDS, Peter Vernig RSO, VA Med Center, Denver 
vernig.peter@forum.va.gov
 
 
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