URGENT MEDICAL DEVICE RECALL – Atomlab™ 500 Dose Calibrator and Atomlab™ 500Plus Dose Calibrator August 24, 2021 Biodex is voluntarily recalling the Atomlab™ 500 Dose Calibrator and the Atomlab™ 500Plus Dose Calibrator. The recall is revision 2.0.00 through Revision 2.0.08, inclusive. The Atomlab™ Dose Calibrators are intended to measure the activity of a radioactive source […]
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In April of 2019, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) released a position statement outlining reasons for limiting the routine use of fetal and gonadal shielding in medical imaging. This position statement has since been endorsed by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the Canadian Organization of Medical Physics (COMP), the Health Physics […]
Learn More...Read more here: ACR Endorses AAPM Patient Shielding Policy
Learn More...For many years, Nuclear Medicine Technologists have been told that their Hot lab is subject to certain rules promulgated by the US Pharmacopeia, such as USP 797 and 825. Read more here.
Learn More...PP 32-A AAPM Position Statement on the Use of Patient Gonadal and Fetal Shielding 4/2/2019 12/31/2024 Policy source April 2-3, 2019 Board of Directors Meeting Minutes Patient gonadal and fetal shielding during X-ray based diagnostic imaging should be discontinued as routine practice. Patient shielding may jeopardize the benefits of undergoing radiological imaging. Use of these shields […]
Learn More...The Joint Commission has issued a major update. Please click on the following link for more information: Prepub_HAP_Fluoroscopy_Revisions_20180613
Learn More...Radiologic imaging is claimed to carry an iatrogenic risk of cancer, based on an uninformed commitment to the 70-y-old linear no-threshold hypothesis (LNTH). Credible evidence of imaging-related low-dose (<100 mGy) carcinogenic risk is nonexistent; it is a hypothetical risk derived from the demonstrably false LNTH. On the contrary, low-dose radiation does not cause, but more […]
Learn More...The Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) signed into law in April 2014 was the last “patch” of the SGR and included many implications for imaging providers. Among these are requirements that health care providers comply with the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) XR-29 Standard Attributes on CT Equipment Related to Dose Optimization and Management, […]
Learn More...In the March 2016 issue of Perspectives* , The Joint Commission announced the addition of two new Human Resources (HR) elements of performance (EPs) for accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care organizations that provide diagnostic imaging services (including those ambulatory care organizations that have achieved Advanced Diagnostic Imaging certification). The new HR requirements, […]
Learn More...The latest version of The Joint Commission’s Compliance Checklist has been released. You can use this checklist to help evaluate your compliance with The Joint Commission’s diagnostic imaging requirements. A copy of this document can be downloaded from our site by clicking here.
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