Risk Management: Page 2

FDA: Airport scanners pose low health risks
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Full-body scanners used in airports and court buildings pose very little health risk, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
November 4, 2010
Mayo says 3K patients at risk in hep C scandal
By Eric Barnes
The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, said that more than 3,200 patients may have been put at risk by an interventional radiologic technologist who has been fired. The employee has admitted to stealing drugs and contaminating needles used for injectable pain medications before administering drugs to patients, Mayo said.
September 2, 2010
EC addresses isotope shortage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The European Commission (EC) has sent to the European Parliament a series of recommendations designed to address the global medical isotope shortage and prevent unnecessary radiation exposure for CT and radiation therapy patients.
August 8, 2010
SoCal hospitals say patients got too much CT radiation
By Eric Barnes
Two more hospitals in Southern California have admitted that patients undergoing perfusion CT brain scans last fall received excessive radiation doses, just as legislation that would require dose levels to be displayed on CT scanners won a vote in the state Assembly.
August 5, 2010
Patient safety symposium draws crowds at AAPM
By Tami Freeman
PHILADELPHIA - Patient safety in radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging has always been an important concern for the medical physics community. At the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting taking place this week, a special symposium examined the issues surrounding patient safety and what's being done to improve it.
July 21, 2010
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Relaxing rigid timing of linac safety tests may offer benefits
By Cynthia E. Keen
Emergency turnoff switches for radiation therapy equipment need to be tested regularly to maintain high quality standards. But a presentation made today at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine meeting suggests that some state regulations aren't necessarily based on safety facts.
July 21, 2010
FDA probe prompts closure of Columbia PET laboratory
By Wayne Forrest
Columbia University Medical Center in New York City has suspended all activities at its Kreitchman PET Center laboratory following a four-year probe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
July 19, 2010
High cardiac imaging doses seen in U.S. population
By Eric Barnes
A study of nearly 100,000 U.S. patients who underwent cardiac imaging found that the procedures were associated with "substantial" doses of ionizing radiation in potentially large numbers of patients, according to results published online Thursday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
July 8, 2010
Court transcripts don't resolve questions in Mad River CT case
By Donna Domino
Despite the recent release of court transcripts from the Mad River CT overdose case, questions still remain as to how a Northern California radiologic technologist performed 151 CT scans on a 2-year-old boy in 68 minutes -- resulting in a massive radiation overdose.
June 30, 2010
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Siemens debuts SIERRA dose reduction effort
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has created the Siemens Radiation Reduction Alliance (SIERRA), an initiative aimed at reducing radiation dose in CT.
June 28, 2010
AdvaMed, MITA launch RT equipment safety program
By Cynthia E. Keen
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) and the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) have announced an industrywide effort to develop and implement additional patient protection features for radiation therapy (RT) equipment.
June 9, 2010
Radiology gears up for FDA radiation hearings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The medical imaging industry is gearing up for two days of hearings March 30-31 held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding rising medical radiation dose.
March 29, 2010
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