Re: Related issue - patient

["Mike Bohan" <mike.bohan@yale.edu>]

        Reply to:   RE>>Related issue - patient 

Barbara,

I thought that once a patient who is given a diagnostic dose or meets
therapeutic release limits, leaves the hospital, the radioactive materials
become either exempt or generally licensed.  So what is the legal problem? 
Should we keep all radiopharmaceutical patients under hospital arrest for 10
T1/2's???   %^)  "The devil in me, made me do it!"

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Date: 25/05/97 8:38 PM
To: Mike Bohan
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
In a message dated 97-05-23 15:46:05 EDT, Mike Bohan wrote:

<< I would recommend that the state rad. control programs purchase portable
MCA
 setups with a large portable shielded NaI detector (3" x 3").  They could
then
 acquire a spectrum and compare it against known radiopharmaceutical
spectrums to prevent having to wade through waste to recover Tc-99m
contaminated diapers,
 etc.  >>

As a matter of fact, our state program does have a portable MCA or two.  It
is still quite expensive to send someone out to a landfill,  especially when
some are over a hundred miles from the nearest inspection office, to say,
"yup, that's Tc-99m."  Far better if this waste never made it to the public
landfill, as legally it should not.
 
Barbara L. Hamrick
Los Angeles County - Radiation Management
BLHamrick@aol.com

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