Patient radiation ID cards

i a f e t uestion: Over last New Year’s oliday, the U.S. Department of nergy dispatched casually dressed uclear scientists with sophisticated adiation detection equipment to ook for radiation “dirty” bombs 1] in at least 10 major cities and irports [2]. With increased radiaion surveillance, will patients who ave received permanent brachyherapy implants (I or Pd rostate seeds) or nuclear medicine adiopharmaceuticals be stopped or questioning? If so, what should or an be done to help these patients? Answer: Yes. Patients who have edical procedures that make hem radioactive should be given D cards that describe the nature of he radioactive procedures. At our ospital, we use laminated wallet ards as well as information sheets o document radioactive proceures. Figure 1 displays an example f a wallet card that is given to prosate implant patients. These cards an be printed using a color printer nd laminated using clear packing ape or a lamination machine.