Whats Needed To Store Mobile Medical Equipment?
Storing mobile medical equipment, obviously, falls into two main categories. What’s needed for an MRI is different than what’s needed for a CT, PET, PET/CT, or Cath Lab. The requirements for maintaining anything that’s not an MRI are not as stringent, but many systems require constant power and need specialized attention. PET scanners, as would be expected of any equipment involving radioactive isotopes, have their own special requirements for storage — or more accurately, there are special procedures that have to be followed before the unit is transported for storage. Here’s what’s involved: when decommissioning and storing a PET scanner the “sealed source,” usually Germanium-68 or Cesium-137, must be removed from the mobile unit by a special service engineer. The sealed source then must be transferred to a storage facility licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or a facility in an “agreement state,” or a U.S. state that agrees to abide by the regulatory requirements of the NR
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