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Doses only leave our department for 2 reasons. Either they're being taken by the tech to the IR suite and handed directly to an AU to inject (Y90 therapies) or taken by the tech to an OR and given directly to a breast surgeon to inject (sentinel node). ...

Good morning, At Huntington Hospital Pasadena, all Lymphoscintigraphy injections; SN an and melanoma injections are performed in the NM department and by one of our AU’s. Chain of custody is key, this has been a standard at all locations that I’ve worked ...

The CNMT's perform the sentinel injections in the pre-op bay before patient goes into OR. Also- We will bring the doses to ENT for oral surgeon to inject in mouth. We bring them disposable lab coat. After injection and patient is outside of the room, ...

Don, Your approach is identical to ours - radiopharmaceuticals can leave Nuclear Medicine typically once administered to a patient. We do have to inject patients outside the Nuclear Medicine clinic occasionally. Still, those areas are trained but ...

All of my sentinel node injections are done in the nuclear medicine department. If a dose were to go to the OR, it wouldn't leave my nuclear medicine department unless I'm handling it. Folks in the OR have no idea how to handle radioactive materials. ...