Clinical risk management in the 99m-Tc-MIBI quality control procedure in nuclear medicine. Case study.

Abstract

The work is based on daily work protocols used within a Nuclear Medicine Operating Unit in which all modern radiopharmaceuticals are used and quality control procedures are applied to the latter. It is essential to underline, also with the production of this article, the importance of quality controls and the collaboration of the various figures in the field in order to avoid inappropriate injection of radiopharmaceuticals and to guarantee the safety and appropriateness of the procedures with an effective clinical risk management in contrast and prevent technical errors and penalizing the injection and acquisition of diagnostic tests, sometimes urgent, and indispensable for the diagnosis of even delicate pathologies.