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A Doctor's Perspective on Extravasation: Ensuring Transparency and Care in Patient Treatment.
Tim Bartholow, a family practitioner and former chief medical officer for a not-for-profit payer, reflects on clinicians' responsibility concerning extravasations. He believes it's essential to be aware of known potential harm and to disclose such risks to patients both before an incident and if harm has indeed occurred. Read more. |
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Nuclear medicine clinicians said that they use best practices to administer radiopharmaceuticals. They don’t.
The nuclear medicine community has stated that they are using best practices to gain venous access and administer radiopharmaceuticals, and therefore do not contribute to extravasations. We tested this statement by evaluating four different perspectives of current radiopharmaceutical administration practices. Read more. |
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Is NRC protecting patients or they protecting the industry they regulate?
David Townsend is the co-inventor of the PET/CT scanner. Daniel Fass is a radiation oncologist. Their piece in STAT discusses the flawed NRC decision requiring patients to report their extravasations. Read more. |
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Read what a patient has to say about radiopharmaceutical extravasation.
Pam Kohl shares her perspective on why patients need to be notified if they have been extravasated and how the NRC fails to protect patients. Read more. |
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The importance of accurate diagnostic imaging for cancer patients.
Pam Kohl has been living with metastatic breast cancer for 5 years. She receives a bone nuclear imaging test every 3 months. During one of these scans, she experienced an extravasation, which can distort the quality of the image, rendering it inaccurate. Read more. |
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Ethics and Medical Radiological Imaging: A World Health Organization (WHO) Policy Brief.
Medical imaging is universally accepted as an essential tool in health care. Yet, unlike most of medicine, its patient safety practices draw on the system of radiation protection, as opposed to that provided by medical ethics. Read more. |
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Advocating for Patient Safety: Call for Mandatory Extravasation Reporting to the NRC.
HealthImaging published an article discussing a recent Information Correction Request sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Read more. |
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Let’s Close This Safety Loophole in Cancer Care.
A radiation oncologist, medical oncologist and patient advocate co-authored this compelling opinion piece in The Cancer Letter weekly news publication. Read more. |
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Foot-Dragging on Patient Irradiation Suggests Regulatory Capture.
In this opinion article in the science and medical publication STAT, a 40-year oncologist details the long history of avoiding oversight in the nuclear medicine community and the need to change the NRC rules of reporting. Read more. |
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Nuclear Medicine Extravasations - Patients Have a Right to Know.
In this opinion piece for Patients Rising, the chief of molecular imaging at a major Virginia health system argues for new NRC rules and greater transparency for patients. Read more. |
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PET/CT Co-inventor Urges Immediate Action on Extravasation Reporting.
David Townsend, the co-inventor of the PET/CT calls on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to protect patient safety by updating their 1980 rule and requiring the reporting of significant extravasations. Read more. |
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Case Report: Detection of Excess Presence of 99mTc-MDP Near Injection Site.
An article published in Frontiers in Medicine presents evidence showing that extravasations during nuclear scans can harm patients. Read more. |
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Enhancing Patient Care in Cancer Treatment: Carilion Clinic's Approach to Reducing Extravasations.
Dr. Jackson W. Kiser, the Chief of Molecular Imaging at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, shares the clinic's successful strategies for reducing extravasation rates and emphasizes the importance of reporting significant extravasations just like any as other medical events that exceeds NRC reporting limits. Read more. |
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How Extravasation Compromises Patient Care.
A literature review finds that significant extravasations can or have caused patient harm and can irradiate patients' tissue with doses that exceed medical event reporting limits. Read more. |
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A Study on Reducing Infiltration Rates and Improving Diagnostic Accuracy.
In this study, a quality improvement plan was developed and implemented to reduce extravasation rates, using a system that monitors and scores injection quality. Read more. |