A risk assessment of multiple use of an aerosol system compared with single use for lung ventilation scans
| Autor: | Early My, Burford D, Belton Ip |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
Quality Control
medicine.medical_specialty Quality Assurance Health Care Context (language use) Product Labeling Risk Assessment law.invention Multiple use Hospitals Urban law Radiation Monitoring medicine Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio Infection control Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Risk factor Radionuclide Imaging Lung Societies Medical Aerosols business.industry General Medicine United Kingdom Ventilation Surgery Personnel Hospital Nebulizer Emergency medicine Ventilation (architecture) Technetium Tc 99m Pentetate Risk assessment business Quality assurance |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear medicine communications. 18(7) |
| ISSN: | 0143-3636 |
| Popis: | Over 300 99 Tc m -DTPA aerosol lung ventilation scans are performed at Leicester Royal Infirmary each year. Current practice is to re-use the nebulizer circuits up to five times over a maximum of 1 week. Following a visit from the hospital infection control team, this practice was questioned and, therefore, a risk assessment was carried out. This compared the risks of multiple use of ventilation circuits with single use. A survey was also carried out to try and establish current practice in other departments. The risk assesment showed that both single and multiple use of nebulizer circuits can have a high risk. The risks associated with the former were radiation safety and/or financial, and the risk with the latter was cross-infection. The survey showed that multiple use is certainly commoh practice within the UK. Therefore, in coming to a decision on which practice to adopt, these risks must be considered most carefully in the context of the local environment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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