Radiopharmaceuticals Essay

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Radiopharmaceuticals

The discovery of scintillation camera in 1961 and when 99mTc brought out as a perfect medical tracer in 1960, led to the birth of modern nuclear medicine.
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New radiopharmaceuticals are being introduced as field of nuclear medicine is continuously improving and growing over the last 50 years. Among those new radiopharmaceuticals, many of the agents introduced were world shattering advances in nuclear medicine, which were used for functional imaging.
As radiopharmaceuticals are radioactive, handling them require extra care. Special procedures are adopted to make sure their safe use, that is why in the past they were being managed in a separate area in several health care system and still this is adopted in several health care system. Due to radioactivity issue, when departments of nuclear medicine were settling and progressing, radiopharmaceutical polices were adopted by many of them which were made by them selves in order to prevent their administration improperly and to ensure their safe and effective use. At the same time, several pharmacy departments were unhurried to increase thorough and mounting standards to deal with other issues posed by radioactive agents. The record of use of radiopharmaceuticals has been supposed to be safe, contributing to be deficient in pharmacy mistake in mos...

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...sed. Usually, the criteria adopted for addition of medications in formulary ; proven results of that medication about effectiveness and efficiency ;
Adverse drug interactions of medications, their possible interactions with other drugs, chances of misuse or ill treatment ; excellence of product and cost effectiveness.

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the committee approval is required in case when adding a medication, removal and replacement of medications. In case of suggestion of novel and advanced protocoals regarding medications, approval by pharmacy and therapeutic committee is still required.

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