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EN Revision Imported Date : 1/31/2020 AGREEN Revision Imported Date : 1/31/2020</br>AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - NUCLEAR MEDICINE EMPLOYEE OVER EXPOSURE</br>The following report was received via e-mail:</br>On December 6, 2017, the Radiation Safety Officer at Glendale Adventist Medical Center notified the Principal Radiation Protection Specialist at Los Angeles County Radiation Management that at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, a nuclear medicine employee had unusually high readings on his Landauer dosimeters over the last several months: 490 mrem DDE (deep dose equivalent)(July 2017), 490 mrem DDE (August 2017), 892 mrem DDE (September 2017), 12,870 mrem DDE (October 2017), and 166 mrem DDE (November 2017).</br>California Report: 120617</br>* * * RETRACTION ON 1/30/2020 AT 1232 EST FROM THOMAS MIKO TO ANDREW WAUGH * * *</br>The following information was received from the state of California via email:</br>The Radiation Safety Officer at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, California performed an in-house investigation, and has stated in his report to Los Angeles County that he does not believe that the employee actually received the exposures recorded on his dosimeters. Policy and procedure changes were implemented to avoid having employee dosimeters artificially exposed to x-ray equipment (while not being worn by the employee), which they believe to be the cause of the elevated exposure reports. Los Angeles County did not rescind this report until now, because they waited to perform reviews of the same employee's dosimetry records for the length of 2018 and 2019. No new incidents have occurred. Please rescind the attached report that was submitted in December of 2017.</br>Notified R4DO (Dixon) and NMSS Events (email).fied R4DO (Dixon) and NMSS Events (email).  +
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EN Revision Imported Date : 1/31/2020 AGREEN Revision Imported Date : 1/31/2020</br>AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - NUCLEAR MEDICINE EMPLOYEE OVER EXPOSURE</br>The following report was received via e-mail:</br>On December 6, 2017, the Radiation Safety Officer at Glendale Adventist Medical Center notified the Principal Radiation Protection Specialist at Los Angeles County Radiation Management that at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, a nuclear medicine employee had unusually high readings on his Landauer dosimeters over the last several months: 490 mrem DDE (deep dose equivalent)(July 2017), 490 mrem DDE (August 2017), 892 mrem DDE (September 2017), 12,870 mrem DDE (October 2017), and 166 mrem DDE (November 2017).</br>California Report: 120617</br>* * * RETRACTION ON 1/30/2020 AT 1232 EST FROM THOMAS MIKO TO ANDREW WAUGH * * *</br>The following information was received from the state of California via email:</br>The Radiation Safety Officer at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, California performed an in-house investigation, and has stated in his report to Los Angeles County that he does not believe that the employee actually received the exposures recorded on his dosimeters. Policy and procedure changes were implemented to avoid having employee dosimeters artificially exposed to x-ray equipment (while not being worn by the employee), which they believe to be the cause of the elevated exposure reports. Los Angeles County did not rescind this report until now, because they waited to perform reviews of the same employee's dosimetry records for the length of 2018 and 2019. No new incidents have occurred. Please rescind the attached report that was submitted in December of 2017.</br>Notified R4DO (Dixon) and NMSS Events (email).fied R4DO (Dixon) and NMSS Events (email).  +
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