Determining the Pregnancy Status of Patients Before Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine Procedures: The Australian Experience
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Determining the pregnancy status of patients before diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures: the Australian experience.
UNLABELLED Ionizing radiation used in diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures has the potential to have biologic effects on a fetus. Nuclear medicine technologists (NMTs) therefore have a responsibility to ensure that they question all patients of childbearing age about their pregnancy status before starting any procedure, to avoid unnecessary fetal irradiation. In Australia, there are no clearl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0091-4916
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.111.088740