S Hall

Any insights into how to find a preceptor?

I do love neuro imaging, I just assumed that the patient was ready to scan before injection. As a CCU RN, I would still not inject Versed and leave.

PET/CT has been replaced by PET/MRI in some settings.

We rarely ever allowed medications for anxiety even on inpatients. If we did, it was given on the scanner immediately before scanning. I misunderstood because of the long uptake period required. Why would they inject the "sedative" so early? It would've worn off.

An anoxic injury could easily be mistaken for a brain bleed when a patient lays flat for 30 minutes (why I worry during MRI scans) when the RN never documented the administration of the paralytic...

I must include that I did not know the difference between Versed and vec as a Nuc Med/PET technologist and would not have understood what the RN was giving, but the patient is visualized during the entire scan because the table is moving through the scanner (just slowly).

It said that she never documented it anywhere.

I'm a registered RT®, CNMT, PET technologist, and RN. The PET scans usually run for 3 minutes to cover a small area and then moves down. The reconstruction the images must go through takes at least another 3-5 minutes on most cameras. A quiet environment is critical in order to minimize patient motion (startle). F-18 FDG is a glucose analog that gets trapped inside cells over an hour long period. Panic occurring during scanning would not change the FDG uptake pattern on the images. An "eye to thigh" scan would take 8 "beds" at 3 minutes each = 24 minutes. It was most likely the PET technologist that called the rapid response at the end of the scan when they attempted to move the patient from the scanner.

I was wondering something similar. If the ED gives a 2 L bolus of NS and broad-spectrum IV antibiotics 6-12 hours before the ICU inserts a foley catheter and sends urine cultures to lab, will the cultures be altered?