How to Protect Yourself During Nuclear Scans Webinar
Wed, Aug 17
|Webinar
Do you know how to advocate for yourself or a loved one during a nuclear medicine scan? Join us for a Patients for Safer Nuclear Medicine Coalition webinar that will give you the facts about nuclear scans, including a scan error called extravasation.
Time & Location
Aug 17, 2022, 10:30 AM EDT
Webinar
About the event
Millions of Americans get nuclear scans for cancer, heart problems, and brain diseases every year. Extravasations occur when a radioactive drug is accidentally injected into healthy arm tissue instead of a vein prior to a nuclear scan. Extravasations are medical errors but there are no federal rules that require hospitals and clinics to report them - not even to the patient.
During this webinar you will learn what an extravasation is, hear from a patient who experienced an extravasation, and get the information you need to protect yourself during a scan.
After registering here, you will receive an additional registration form via email. To receive details and join the webinar, you must complete the form.
Patients for Safer Nuclear Medicine is a coalition of patient advocacy organizations and corporate partners dedicated to ensuring the safety of nuclear medicine scans. In particular, the coalition is seeking to require the reporting of…