Re: medical misadministration of I-131

[carol marcus <csmarcus@ucla.edu>]

At 09:57 AM 8/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/13/99 6:02:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>GAMMAT@swbell.net writes:
>
><< In a one year period in Texas there were at least 31 reported
> misadministrations listed in the TDH"s incident report listed below. >>
>
>Still, this should be put in perspective...How many tens of thousands of 
>diagnostic studies are done in a year across the state?
>
>Barbara
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Dear Radsafers:

Not "tens of thousands".  Probably at least around 1-1.5 million.
California, the largest state in the nation, does about 20% of the nation's
Nuclear Medicine, and Texas is the second largest state now.  The total
number of diagnostic procedures in the nation is somewhere around 10-13
million per year.

Ciao, Carol

<csmarcus@ucla.edu>

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