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12:50 Jul 22, 2016 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Loss of Licensed Medical Treatment Seeds |
| Event Description | The following information was provided via email from the State of Tennessee:
A patient was treated with 50 I-125 seeds. The patient was apparently not responding well to the treatment so he was brought back to Vanderbilt to have the seeds removed. Today, only 39 of the 50 seeds were recovered from the patient. According to the patient, prior to returning to Vanderbilt to have the seeds removed the patient stated that he 'picked' the 11 seeds out and threw them in the trash can at his home near Huntsville, Al. Total activity of the 11 missing seeds, after decay, equals 1.71 mCi of I-125. Patient is currently still at Vanderbilt Medical Center. The State of Tennessee has notified the State of Alabama's Office of Radiation Protection. TN State Event Report ID no: TN-16-102 THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf |
| Where | |
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| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | R-19266 |
| Organization: | Tennessee Div Of Rad Health |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-0.75 h-0.0313 days <br />-0.00446 weeks <br />-0.00103 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Ryan Crihfield 12:05 Jul 22, 2016 |
| NRC Officer: | Jeff Rotton |
| Last Updated: | Jul 22, 2016 |
| 52118 - NRC Website | |
Vanderbilt University Medical Center with Agreement State | |
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