Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Nothing in sections
16.6
through
16.16
of this Part shall limit any human use of radiation in diagnostic or
therapeutic procedures pursuant to section
16.19
of this Part provided that with respect to use on humans of radioactive
material, such use is in accordance with a specific or general license issued
under this Part, or an exemption therefrom.
(b) Each professional practitioner who
administers, inserts, or implants an amount of radioactive material into a
patient in such quantities as to require such patient to be confined for
radiation protection purposes pursuant to section
16.123
of this Part shall require that such patient wear a wrist band. The wrist band
shall bear the radiation symbol, the quantity and type of radioactive material
administered, inserted or implanted and the date on which such quantity was
measured.
(c) Radioactive cadavers.
(1) If any patient containing radioactive
material, which was administered for therapeutic purposes, dies it shall be the
responsibility of the doctor who pronounces such patient as dead to notify
immediately the physician in charge of the case or his/her designated
representative.
(2) No person shall
commence any autopsy on any cadaver that contains radioactive material in a
quantity that exceeds five millicuries, which was administered for therapeutic
purposes, without first having consulted with and being advised by the
radiation safety officer of the hospital or, if he/she is not available, the
physician responsible for the administration of the radioactive material. If
neither is available, their designated representative may serve.
(3) A radioactivity report on every cadaver
containing more than five millicuries of radioactive material which was
administered for therapeutic purposes, shall be completed by the radiation
safety officer or the physician responsible for the administration of the
radioactive material or their designated representatives. The report must
include the name and address of the hospital; the name of the deceased; the
name, address and telephone number of the next of kin; the name, address and
telephone number of the funeral home to which the deceased will be sent; the
radionuclide involved, the approximate activity on the day of the report and
the physical form; the location of the radioactive materials in the body and
the external rate at the body surface closest to the source; the precautions to
be observed during autopsy or handling of the body by the funeral director; and
the name of the person who prepared the form. This report shall accompany the
body (whether autopsied or not) when it is surrendered to the funeral director.
The department shall be notified in person, or by telephone, mailgram or
facsimile within 24 hours of the death and a copy of the radioactivity report
shall be sent to the department within 15 days of the death.
