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General Electric and Toshiba medical radiation scans overdoses

machines involved in the botched CT scans, made by General Electric and Toshiba, had been wrongly calibrated and subjected patients who underwent brain perfusion scans following a stroke to excessive doses of radiation.

New Details Emerge in CT Scan Radiation Overdose Scandal, News Inferno,  August 1st, 2010 Radiation overdoses resulting from botched CT brain perfusion scans that occurred at hospitals across the country were larger and more widespread than previously known, according to a New York Times investigation. The Times’ investigation also raises new questions about the role CT scan machine manufacturers may have played in the overdoses…………
it was first reported by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) last year. According to alerts issued by the agency in October and December 2009, machines involved in the botched CT scans, made by General Electric and Toshiba, had been wrongly calibrated and subjected patients who underwent brain perfusion scans following a stroke to excessive doses of radiation.

According to the FDA, at least 269 patients at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles were injured in this way. Another 37 received radiation overdoses at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, while 65 more at Alabama’s Huntsville Hospital underwent botched CT scans. At the time, the FDA was also investigating 10 incidents at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in California.

The CT scan machines had been set at the higher level since February 2008, but went undetected for 18 months. It wasn’t until patients began complaining of hair loss and skin reddening that the error was found. New Details Emerge in CT Scan Radiation Overdose Scandal

August 2, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, radioactive, reactors