An improved mouth-piece to prevent environmental contamination during radioaerosol inhalation procedures

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorBraga, FJHN
dc.creatorSouza, J. F.
dc.creatorTrad, C. S.
dc.creatorSantos, A. C.
dc.creatorNetto, T. G.
dc.creatorElias, J.
dc.creatorHindie, E.
dc.creatorIazigi, N.
dc.date2014-05-20T13:49:22Z
dc.date2016-10-25T17:01:53Z
dc.date2014-05-20T13:49:22Z
dc.date2016-10-25T17:01:53Z
dc.date1998-10-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-05T21:01:09Z
dc.date.available2017-04-05T21:01:09Z
dc.identifierHealth Physics. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, v. 75, n. 4, p. 424-427, 1998.
dc.identifier0017-9078
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/17596
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/17596
dc.identifier10.1097/00004032-199810000-00011
dc.identifierWOS:000076203800013
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004032-199810000-00011
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/864043
dc.descriptionThe literature suggests that environmental contamination is common during labeled aerosol inhalation procedures in nuclear medicine. We have tested an adherent mask to prevent environmental contamination in 70 procedures. Two groups of patients were evaluated, Group 1 (60 inhalation cases in which the mask was used) presented no environmental contamination in 95% of the procedures (means of 553 dpm and 596 dpm before and after inhalation, p > 0.05, mean of the differences before/after inhalation 6.95, SD = 21.2 dpm) and the only 3 cases in which contamination did occur concerned bearded men; Group 2 (10 inhalation cases in which the mask was not used) showed large increases of environmental radioactive levels in 70% of the procedures (means of 601 dpm and 2,756 dpm before and after inhalation, p < 0.05, mean of the differences 3,066, SD = 2,98 dpm), We conclude that such a mask is very helpful in avoiding environmental contamination during radioaerosol inhalation procedures.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherLippincott Williams & Wilkins
dc.relationHealth Physics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectaerosols
dc.subjectinhalation
dc.subjectcontamination, environmental
dc.subjectradiation protection
dc.titleAn improved mouth-piece to prevent environmental contamination during radioaerosol inhalation procedures
dc.typeOtro


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