Re: Re[2]: ALARA at hospital

["Kent N. Lambert" <lambert@auhs.edu>]

On 11 Dec 97 at 8:53, tdc@ehssun.lbl.gov wrote:

> I don't understand - WHY must the Iodine patient room be released to
> general use?  With the 5 or so patients per week you cite - why not
> just use it for the next Iodine patient?  I wouldn't think that
> "general use"??

Read 10 CFR 35.315(a)(7) which states that the licensee must "survey 
the patient's or human research subject's room adn private sanitary 
facility for removable contamination with a radiation detection 
survey instrument before assigning another patient or human research 
subject to the room.  The room must not be reassigned until removable 
contamination is less than 200 dpm per 100 sq cm."

To do as you propose requires an exemption to this regulation or 
subjects you  to enforcement action.  Been there.


Kent N. Lambert, M.S., CHP
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Allegheny University of the Health Sciences
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