RE: Authorized User under 10 CFR 35

["Mays, Mark" <Mark.Mays@wrigem.wpafb.af.mil>]

NRC Reg Guide 10.8 discusses this topic.
Authorized users involved in medical use have the following special
responsibilities:
1.  Examination of patients and medical records to determine if a
radiation procedure is appropriate;
2. Prescription of the radiation dosage or dose and how it is to be
administered;
3. Actual use of, or direction of technologist or other paramedical
personnel in the use of, byproduct material; and
4.  Interpretation of results of diagnostic procedures and evaluation of
results of therapy procedures.

Numbers 1 through 4 may be delegated to a physician who is under the
supervision of an authorized user.

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Mark L. Mays, Chief
Radiation Safety 
(937) 257-2010 x208
DSN 787-2010
mailto: mark.mays@wrigem.wpafb.af.mil 


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I concur. Many people don't recognize this important distinction.

chris alston
I'm not here representing my employer.

>At 11:26  11/27/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>According to 10 CFR 35.2, an authorized user is one who administers
(or
>>supervises the administration of)
>>either internally or externally, byproduct material or the radiation
>>therefrom to patients or human research subjects.
>>
>>I take from this, that anyone who prescribes a dosage must be an
authorized
>>user.
>>However, not being an authorized user, does not preclude someone from
>>reading and
>>clinically interperting an image made using licensed radioactive
materials.
>>This latter case
>>falls under the auspices of clinical privileges.
>>
>>Dose everyone/anyone concur or disagree?
>>
>>John C. Erb
>>
>>email: John_C_Erb@prodigy.net
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