Dieblemorad open course material: Steps in nuclear medicine safety

Describe your own experiences related to RF Dose Dispensing and Injecting the RF.

• Are you using protective equipment to reduce external radiation?
• Which equipment do you use? Is it consistent with the recommended equipment?
• Are you using protective equipment to reduce contamination andwhich equipment you use?
• Do you calculated the required activity at the specified injection time?
• Which information (about RF) do you include for labeling of patient dose?
• Do you double checked patient’s identity?
• Do you checked the pregnancy status of female patients?
• Do you calculated the activity/dose in the case of a pediatric patient to get the appropriate activity/dose based on patient’s weight?
• Do you use protective equipment for administration of radiopharmaceuticals?
• Do you wear personal and extremity dosimeters?
• If no, why not? If yes, how do you do it?