Role of the clinical radiopharmacist in patient safety during myocardial perfusion imaging with vasodilator stress agents

CONCLUSIONS: Working in a systematic way, the radiopharmacist was able to detect a high number of issues related to regadenoson, with one out of four patients presenting some clinical contraindication. The recommendations given by the radiopharmacist were well accepted by the nuclear physicians who changed their approach contributing to increase the safety of patients referred for MPI.PMID:38184070 | DOI:10.1016/j.remnie.2023.12.005

Source: Molecular Medicine - January 6, 2024 Category: Molecular Biology Authors: C Salgado-Garcia A Moreno-Ballesteros P Guardia-Jimena E Sanchez-de-Mora A C Rebollo-Aguirre A Ramirez-Navarro A Santos-Bueno A Jimenez-Heffernan Source Type: research