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Radiation Safety for Medical Facilities

70 minutes

Part No. DVD18 [Ordering Page]

This radiation safety video, available in VHS or DVD format, is an excellent and comprehensive treatment of the subject of medical radiation safety. The DVD format has a menu that makes it possible to easily view any of the subdivisions of the presentation or you can play everything from the beginning.

OUTLINE OF MAJOR PROGRAM POINTS

The following outline summarizes the main points of information presented in this video program. This outline can be used to review the program before conducting a classroom session as well as in preparing to lead a class discussion about the program.

This video discusses the many aspects of radiation safety in medical facilities. The video discusses the following key points:

• Types of radiation used in hospitals and other medical facilities
• Acute radiation exposure
• Chronic radiation exposure
• Linear No Threshold
• Acute dose vs. response
• ALARA
• Precautions for radioactive materials in nuclear medicine
• X-ray settings, filtration, dose and KVp, scattering
• Risks of fluoroscopy, precautions, pulse mode, cinemode
• CT settings, multi-slice, gaps between slices
• Regulatory limits – whole body, eye lens, skin, extremities
• Limits for Non-rad workers – 100 millirem per year
• Dose rate limits
• Definitions of high radiation area, radiation area, uncontrolled area
• Training requirements – initial, refresher
• Radiation Surveys and contamination surveys
• Nuclear medicine, safety aspects
• Shielding in relation to nuclear medicine patients
• Contamination in nuclear medicine patients
• Bioassay requirements for medical workers, especially for radioactive iodine
• Radiation oncology, precautions, surveys, QA checks
• Radiation sources, seeds etc, inventory
• Radiation and pregnancy
• Spills and contamination
• Skin contamination

Conclusion - The information discussed in the video provides information for training medical personnel in the safe use of radiation and radioactive material in a medical environment. The radioactive materials and radiation emitting equipment used in medicine are varied. Each source of radiation has its own set of risks and unique characteristics. It is necessary for those involved in the use of these materials and devices to have a complete understanding of how to use them safely.

This radiation safety video (or DVD) comes with a post test quiz and 10 training certificates. Additional training certificates can be ordered at a cost of $1 each. Training certificates are customized for this particular video and need only the employees name to be added.

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