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Patients receive radioactive overdoses

Hospital error leads to CT scan radiation overdoses in 206 patients Scientific Anerican By Larry Greenemeier  14 Oct 09 “……….at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where 206 X-ray computed tomography (CT) scan patients were given eight times the normal of radiation during brain scans over an 18-month period. The Los Angeles Times reports today that the cause of the overdoses has been traced back to a mistake the hospital made resetting a CT scanner……………….oncerned that this error might not be limited to Cedars-Sinai, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week issued an alert to CT facilities, radiologists, neurologists and several other types of healthcare professionals to warn them of possible “widespread problems with CT quality assurance programs,” meaning the problem might not be isolated to Cedars-Sinai’s equipment or this particular imaging procedure.

Observations: Hospital error leads to CT scan radiation overdoses in 206 patients

October 14, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive