Re: 131-I, Blood, Sweat & Tears

[mozley@darius.pet.upenn.edu (P. David Mozley)]

>There is only one item I would add to Mike Bohanan's excellent summary of
>I-131 precautions:  be prepared for emesis.  One hospital I was associated
>with had a patient vomit shortly after receiving 300 mCi of I-131.  It was
>not a pretty sight.
>
>Make that two items.  Although these patients are generally quite healthy,
>there is still the possibility of cardiac arrest, etc.

You mean pharyngeopulmonary edema sometimes leading to secondary
cardiopulmonary arrest, etc.  There was already a long thread on patients
who die shortly after administration of high dose I-131.