Technical Aspects of Parenteral Administration of Radiopharmaceuticals to Oncological Patients

For performing the PET/CT examination, the administration of radiopharmaceutical as unavoidable for imaging with PET. Inversely, the administration of contrast agent to improve the quality of CT part of PET/CT as optional.  The accurate intravenous administration of diagnostic radiopharmaceutical (and optionally of contrast agent) may be challenging in some cases, in particular in patients with compromised peripheral venous access after several lines of treatments. In order to increase the patient comfort and to simplify the intravenous administration of medicines, several types of long-term venous access have been developed.

• To understand the different types of currently available long-term venous accesses
• To understand the principles of safe and correct handling of long-term venous access in patient referred for PET/CT
  
  

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