CPB Ljubljana 2018 course book

ICRP Publication 97 (HDR)

Origin of the different Events:

• Handling and Transport of Sources

Human

• Inadequate Structural Shielding

• Sources in transit (remaining in the safe, in the patient, along the transfer tubes)

• Treatments given to wrong patients

Human

• Incorrect prescription or delivery of dose

• repeated treatments to the same patient

Prevention of High-dose-rate Brachytherapy Accidents, Volume 35 No. 2, 2005