Competency information
Details
Review an adverse reaction to a radiopharmaceutical administration and the subsequent incident investigation.
Considerations
- Radiopharmaceuticals in routine clinical practice together with any particular problems arising from their use.
- Nuclear medicine examinations, including PET, their indications, clinical use and impact on patient management.
- Adjuvant medicines used in nuclear medicine, their role and impact on the clinical outcome.
- Potential medicine interactions and interventions that may affect radiopharmaceutical performance or the outcome of a patient investigation or treatment.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 6 | Outcome Investigate unusual clinical findings in patient scans to determine any possible relationship to administered radiopharmaceuticals and report findings, maintaining patient confidentiality, assessing whether unusual clinical findings affect the validity of the patient scan due to radiopharmaceutical defects or medicines interactions. |
| # 7 | Outcome Investigate adverse medicines reactions and explain the likely inter- relationship between patient symptoms or reaction, or reaction and administered radiopharmaceutical. |