| Procedure and Involvement | What Can Go Wrong? |
|---|---|
| Request and scheduling | Wrong patient scheduled |
| Identification at arrival | Wrong patient identified |
| Information | Missed pregnancy or breast-feeding |
| Administration of radiopharmaceutical | Misadministration (wrong patient, wrong activity, wrong radiopharmaceutical) |
| Waiting | Contamination of waiting area (vomiting, incontinence) |
| Examination | Inconclusive due to contamination, equipment and/or software failure |
| Procedure and Involvement | What Can Go Wrong? |
|---|---|
| Ordering of sources | Unauthorized ordering |
| Receipt and unpacking of shipments | Damage to package, contamination |
| Storage of sources | Unshielded sources, high dose rates, loss of sources |
| Preparation and administration of radiopharmaceutical | High doses recorded, contamination of workers and facilities |
| Handling of radioactive waste | Contamination of workers and facilities |
| Procedure and Involvement | What Can Go Wrong? |
|---|---|
| Storage of sources | Loss of sources |
| Handling of sources | Contamination of facility |
| Radioactive waste | Loss of sources, contamination of facilities |
| Radioactive patient | Escape of hospitalized patient, medical emergency, death of patient |