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How to read a gallium scan.
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| stryped@hotmail.com 2005-05-18, 11:19 am |
| I had an injection of gallium and my first scan 6 hours later. It
showed all my internal organs. The nurse said tomorrow I might be able
to see the lymph nodes. The way they postiion me I can see the monitor.
Is there a way to tell where a problem is or a cancer is?
Just curious.
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| To read a nuclear medicine scan, you first have to know normal anatomy, then
the normal distribution of the radiotracer (in this case Gallium) to detect
any abnormality, which may or may not be cancer. Every case is different,
that's why the radiologist who will read your scan studied many years in
that particular field.... So unfortunetly, the bottom line answer is "no".
Good luck
K.
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> I had an injection of gallium and my first scan 6 hours later. It
> showed all my internal organs. The nurse said tomorrow I might be able
> to see the lymph nodes. The way they postiion me I can see the monitor.
> Is there a way to tell where a problem is or a cancer is?
>
> Just curious.
>
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| stryped@hotmail.com 2005-05-18, 11:20 am |
| Is it normal for your liver on the second day to be brighter than the
rest of the internal organs? I would assume so sinvce it filters all
your blood but I am not sure.
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| Norminn 2005-05-18, 11:20 am |
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> The problem is nothing happens to them when you are right and everything
> happens to you if you are wrong.
>
> The most interesting time was calling the house
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>
> Not that uncommon as stat T&C for patients immediately after surgery or
> patients in the ICU for a week happens and they never even though about TXM
> just in case before hand.
This patient had been admitted more than 12 hours prior to our little
crisis. Bleeding had increased, and the doc notified, more than an hour
before her BP took a dive. Her pulse was steadily increasing, and the
doc informed - had to call house sup. always prior to calling doc during
night. I got involved, although not my assigned patient, when her nurse
went to "dinner" (night shift). Shortly after that nurse returned, she
checked BP and couldn't detect it!!! Jeesh, that got my attention when
she asked me to check it. At that point the patient was becoming
delirious. Guess I'm an adrenaline junkie, as crises are my favorite
challenge if all survive. One of my son's best friends in high school
had been one of my crisis-solved people when his cord prolapsed during
mom's labor :o)
> Issuing Onegs or type specific is really more common then you think on the
> ward. Then you have those doctors really scared to give type specific and
> would rather yell at the blood bank about how long it takes when they should
> have ordered it much earlier.
> I have been doing this for 30 years so I have seen it all.
>
>
> the
>
Doc's get sued every day and twice on Sunday. And their malpractice
takes the first $100,000 they make each year. I tried hard not to make
mistakes, and keep people from dying on my shift. Worked out pretty
well. I didn't play doctor, as many nurses do. Too busy being a nurse
and making sure I knew if my patients had a change in condition. I
never felt I had to have a diagnosis in hand to call a doc and say
something ain't right.
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| Norminn 2005-05-18, 11:20 am |
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> The problem is nothing happens to them when you are right and everything
> happens to you if you are wrong.
>
> The most interesting time was calling the house
>
>
> Not that uncommon as stat T&C for patients immediately after surgery or
> patients in the ICU for a week happens and they never even though about TXM
> just in case before hand.
This patient had been admitted more than 12 hours prior to our little
crisis. Bleeding had increased, and the doc notified, more than an hour
before her BP took a dive. Her pulse was steadily increasing, and the
doc informed - had to call house sup. always prior to calling doc during
night. I got involved, although not my assigned patient, when her nurse
went to "dinner" (night shift). Shortly after that nurse returned, she
checked BP and couldn't detect it!!! Jeesh, that got my attention when
she asked me to check it. At that point the patient was becoming
delirious. Guess I'm an adrenaline junkie, as crises are my favorite
challenge if all survive. One of my son's best friends in high school
had been one of my crisis-solved people when his cord prolapsed during
mom's labor :o)
> Issuing Onegs or type specific is really more common then you think on the
> ward. Then you have those doctors really scared to give type specific and
> would rather yell at the blood bank about how long it takes when they should
> have ordered it much earlier.
> I have been doing this for 30 years so I have seen it all.
>
>
> the
>
Doc's get sued every day and twice on Sunday. And their malpractice
takes the first $100,000 they make each year. I tried hard not to make
mistakes, and keep people from dying on my shift. Worked out pretty
well. I didn't play doctor, as many nurses do. Too busy being a nurse
and making sure I knew if my patients had a change in condition. I
never felt I had to have a diagnosis in hand to call a doc and say
something ain't right.
[vbcol=seagreen]
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