RE: I-131 Therapy & Contamination

[Mark Hammond <mhammond@mail.doh.state.ar.us>]

In my "former life", in addition to the craft paper on the floor, we would reinforce high traffic areas (around the bed and to the bathroom) with absorbent paper with a plastic coating on one side.  What we did was really overkill (we basically padded the whole room), but it saved a lot in decontamination because we didn't have an "exclusive use" room.

Mark C. Hammond
Health Physicist
Arkansas Department of Health
Division of Radiation Control
and Emergency Management
4815 West Markham, Slot #30
Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
(800) 482-5400 ext. 2865 or
(501) 661-2865

-----Original Message-----
From:	William Lorenzen [SMTP:LORENZEN_W@A1.TCH.HARVARD.EDU]
Sent:	Wednesday, July 22, 1998 11:38 AM
To:	Multiple recipients of list
Subject:	I-131 Therapy & Contamination

Want type of materials are being used to prepare a room for an I-131 therapy.  I 
have always used "craft" paper on a role but I am interested in what other are 
using on the floors, etc...

William Lorenzen
Children's Hospital
Boston, MA 02115

lorenzen_w@a1.tch.harvard.edu