Radiopharmaceutical Extravasations: Hazards, Mitigation, and Prevention 2023
Course Format: Online Video
Course Credit Type: CE ARRT
Course Credit: 1.50
Rewards Points Earned: 37.5
Course Category: **Self-Study/On-Demand, *Free Imaging Courses, *Imaging, Nuclear Medicine
Faculty: Nancy Warden, Pam Kohl, David W. Townsend, PhD, Marjan Boerma, PhD, Jackson W. Kiser, MD, Stephen Harris, Darrell Fisher
Course Producer: AltusLearn
Course Cost: Free | Included in All-Access Pass
Mobile Friendly: Yes
Course Release Date: February 01, 2023
Course Expiration Date: January 31, 2024
Program Summary: Learning Objectives:
- Mechanisms of how a radiopharmaceutical extravasation affects the quality and quantification of nuclear medicine imaging studies.
- Potential effects of a radiopharmaceutical extravasation on the interpretation of nuclear medicine studies or therapy and ensuing patient care.
- Primary factors (amount of and types of radiation emissions, biological clearance, and affected tissue volumes) that contribute to the absorbed dose in patient tissue and the process to characterize the absorbed dose from a radiopharmaceutical extravasation.
- Effects of ionizing radiation on normal tissue and when symptoms appear.
- Mitigation steps to reduce absorbed dose to tissue from a radiopharmaceutical extravasation.
- Prevention techniques to minimize the frequency of radiopharmaceutical extravasations.
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