7-11 July 2019
EV22 - AAHP Course 3: So You Want to Be a Medical Radiation Safety Officer? (Jeffrey J. Brunette, Sandy Konerth, Christopher Martel)Ruby Lake 08:00 - 17:00 |
| The use of radiation sources in health care is constantly changing with new and exciting radiopharmaceuticals and radiation-producing machines. It is a constant challenge for the radiation safety staff to stay ahead of the curve and provide value-added guidance to practitioners prior to acquisition of the new technology. This course will outline the fundamental differences between medical and nonmedical licensees for those new to medical health physics. However, the primary focus of the course will be examining the radiation safety and regulatory hurdles involved in the different modalities, for example: • Diagnostic Imaging – PET/MR; 68Ge/68Ga Generators; new PET radiopharmaceuticals. • Radiation Therapy – new infusion therapies and patient-release considerations. • Fluoroscopy Guided Interventions – staff and patient radiation dose minimization. • Emerging Technologies – 90Y microspheres; 125I seed localization. • Regulatory Landscape – changes to federal rules and the progression through agreement state adoption; and state x-ray rules and Joint Commission recommendations. Another aspect of a large medical program that will be examined is radiation safety involvement in human use research protocol review. This includes process steps and informed consent form reviews—with examples. Whenever radioactive materials are administered to a patient or research participant, there is an opportunity for something to go wrong, so no discussion of a medical radiation safety officer’s role would be complete without a discussion of the medical-event regulations and reporting requirements. This course will give an overview of medical health physics to health physicists not in health care, while providing an opportunity for medical health physicists to share experiences and gain insights into a variety of elements within a broad-scope medical licensee program. |
