Breast Surgeons/Radiotracer Dye and Radiation Attenuating Gloves?

[goldfishchronicles]

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Do breast surgeons use radiation attenuating gloves when dealing with radiotracer dyes/sentinel lymph nodes?

 

[WinslowPringle]

My personal experience of N=12 breast surgeons, none used any gloves other than the hospital provided surgical sterile gloves that are used for every other type of OR case.

 

[LucidSplash]

None that I have ever worked with.

 

[Smurfette]

No.

 

[maxxor]

Do breast surgeons use radiation attenuating gloves when dealing with radiotracer dyes/sentinel lymph nodes?

The doses used for localization are so low that unless you operate literally every day for hours exposed to the tc99m, your hands are unlikely to get anywhere close to the rad techs dose they get annually.

 

[Lem0nz]

No. Also not all of them inject the radiotracer themselves. Some have nuc med to it for them and just do the dye themselves.

 

[goldfishchronicles]

Thank you everyone for your responses 🙂

 

[HighPriest]

I never use special gloves for sentinel nodes and now I can crush lead pipes with my bare hands. I don’t even have to use all 13 digits.