New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 16 - Ionizing Radiation › General Provisions › Section 16.9 - Professional practitioners and related provisions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Nothing in sections
				  16.6
				  through
				  16.16 
				  of this Part shall limit any human use of radiation in diagnostic or
				  therapeutic procedures pursuant to section
				  16.19 
				  of this Part provided that with respect to use on humans of radioactive
				  material, such use is in accordance with a specific or general license issued
				  under this Part, or an exemption therefrom.
(b) Each professional practitioner who
				  administers, inserts, or implants an amount of radioactive material into a
				  patient in such quantities as to require such patient to be confined for
				  radiation protection purposes pursuant to section
				  16.123 
				  of this Part shall require that such patient wear a wrist band. The wrist band
				  shall bear the radiation symbol, the quantity and type of radioactive material
				  administered, inserted or implanted and the date on which such quantity was
				  measured.
(c) Radioactive cadavers.
(1) If any patient containing radioactive
				  material, which was administered for therapeutic purposes, dies it shall be the
				  responsibility of the doctor who pronounces such patient as dead to notify
				  immediately the physician in charge of the case or his/her designated
				  representative.
(2) No person shall
				  commence any autopsy on any cadaver that contains radioactive material in a
				  quantity that exceeds five millicuries, which was administered for therapeutic
				  purposes, without first having consulted with and being advised by the
				  radiation safety officer of the hospital or, if he/she is not available, the
				  physician responsible for the administration of the radioactive material. If
				  neither is available, their designated representative may serve.
(3) A radioactivity report on every cadaver
				  containing more than five millicuries of radioactive material which was
				  administered for therapeutic purposes, shall be completed by the radiation
				  safety officer or the physician responsible for the administration of the
				  radioactive material or their designated representatives. The report must
				  include the name and address of the hospital; the name of the deceased; the
				  name, address and telephone number of the next of kin; the name, address and
				  telephone number of the funeral home to which the deceased will be sent; the
				  radionuclide involved, the approximate activity on the day of the report and
				  the physical form; the location of the radioactive materials in the body and
				  the external rate at the body surface closest to the source; the precautions to
				  be observed during autopsy or handling of the body by the funeral director; and
				  the name of the person who prepared the form. This report shall accompany the
				  body (whether autopsied or not) when it is surrendered to the funeral director.
				  The department shall be notified in person, or by telephone, mailgram or
				  facsimile within 24 hours of the death and a copy of the radioactivity report
				  shall be sent to the department within 15 days of the death.