Re: I-131 MCA Patient Room Decon

[jtowson@nucmed.rpa.cs.nsw.gov.au (Jocelyn Towson)]

Someone wrote:

>The patient is instructed to drink copious amounts of water (to increase the
>clearance rate)

A word of warning! we advise our I-131 patients to drink adequate fluids
but somehow this was misunderstood in the various translations to a
non-English speaking patient.  The patient obligingly downed numerous cups
of water through the night, the result next morning was a multi-millicurie
spew all over the floor of the isolation room.

Jocelyn Towson, RSO
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia
jtowson@nucmed.rpa.cs.nsw.gov.au