Abstract:
Concern about the spread of infections in the hospital setting has
prompted regulatory agencies to mandate infection control standards.
Each hospital department is required to have written policies and
procedures which describe measures to prevent and control the spread
of infections (hospital acquired infections), along with quality
assurance programs to assure that procedures are followed. The
Department of Nuclear Medicine, as other departments, should have
procedures which address special precautions for the prevention of
infections. This article will focus on a new approach to prevent
infections, guidelines for handling patients and contaminated
equipment, and the importance of quality assurance activities to
monitor compliance to established standards. An opening discussion
to assess the infection control in the departments of N.M and check the
contamination level in the departments by culturing samples from air
and surface inside the departments of nuclear medicine.
