Diseño e implementación de un sistema de protección radiológica para la Unidad de Medicina Nuclear y Molecular del Hospital Carlos Andrade Marín - IESS, Quito.

Abstract

This paper analyses, from the point of view of safety and radiation protection, the status of the Unit of Nuclear and Molecular Medicine one of the major hospitals in the Republic of Ecuador and the public health sector, such as the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security Hospital called "Carlos Andrade Marin" from Quito. It contains the state of the art as regards molecular nuclear medicine, also known as unconventional, presenting the fundamentals needed to understand the field of medicine it is described. Also evident, then the characteristics of the service in question , what is their status , their problems and the proposed solution support and provide this information to improve the situation of this property is exposed. In the absence of a precedent here on a management system for Radiation Protection, this paper focuses on proposing and implementing means to ensure compliance with the general and specific standards of radioprotection, among which include the creation and approval of protocols security to be implanted in the general manual on Radiological Protection of the Unit of Nuclear and Molecular Medicine, implementation thereof, the verification of compliance and dissemination. Furthermore they record personal dosimetry monitoring occupational manipulation dose of radiopharmaceuticals, treating patients, emergency actions and radiological monitoring areas are also established. Finally, this research makes evident the change made on how to work the Unit of Nuclear and Molecular Medicine staff and the important service element that makes this pioneering hospital service of the Ecuadorian social security.