Re: Volatility of I-131 NaI

["Roger L. Sawyer" <RSawyer@UH.EDU>]

I read this as meaning "to write as many prescriptions as are necessary"...
for EACH employee susceptible to uptake.


carol marcus wrote:
"As it is
> available only by prescription, get one of your docs to write as many
> prescriptions as are necessary, and instruct that anyone using it after an
> accident should report to Nuclear Medicine for a thyroid uptake." 


at 06:58 AM 9/16/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>This seems to be "pushing the envelope," legally.  Two issues:
>
>(1)  Can a physician write a prescription "to whom it may concern"?
>
>(2)  Can SSKI prescribed for one individual be given to someone else?
>
>The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
>It's not about dose it's about staying out of jail.
>
>Bill Lipton
>liptonw@dteenergy.com
>
>
>carol marcus wrote:

>>   I also send over a fresh bottle of SSKI from time to time
>> to my RSO, in case I am not around during an accident.  NaI-131 used for
>> radiolabeling is NOT stabilized, and so it could be more of an issue in
>> research laboratories than on Nuclear Medicine services.  If there are
>> laboratories around that use significant quantities of NaI-131 or NaI-125,
>> it would probably be enough to keep some SSKI around those labs.  As it is
>> available only by prescription, get one of your docs to write as many
>> prescriptions as are necessary, and instruct that anyone using it after an
>> accident should report to Nuclear Medicine for a thyroid uptake.  As
thyroid
>> uptake probes are not calibrated for I-131 or I-125 for any clinical
>> purpose, you might invest in some standards to do so in case of a worker
>> contamination situation.  At Harbor-UCLA, the RSO and Nuclear Medicine have
>> uptake probes, and whenever the RSO calibrates his probe, he sends the
>> sources over to Nuclear Medicine for a calibration as well.
>>
>> <csmarcus@ucla.edu>
Opinions are mine only.
Roger Sawyer
Health Physicist
University of Houston
rsawyer@uh.edu

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