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Products and resources designed with you in mind
Because the safety of you, your patients and colleagues is a top priority, we have developed safety products and resources to allow you to do your job accurately, effectively, and most important, confidently. We aim to provide you the utmost exposure control through certain tools that help assist you with OSHA compliance and education opportunities so you can focus on what is most important – your safety and the safety of your patients.
Cardinal Health offers tools tailored to your specific needs. A sample of our offering includes:
The SECURE® Safety Insert
Helps protect you against needle sticks and exposure to bloodborne pathogens
Helps facilitate compliance with OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogen Standard
Helps ensure that every dose is delivered in a clean pig, not one potentially contaminated
with bloodborne pathogens
Eliminates the need to recap the needle, reducing the likelihood of needle sticks
Is closable, leak proof on sides and bottom and labeled with biohazard symbols
Exposure Control Plan (ECP) for nuclear medicine
A convenient, comprehensive nuclear medicine-specific Exposure Control Plan template that you can easily customize
Helps you adhere to OSHA’s regulations to update ECP annually to show use and evaluation of exposure control technology
Provides up-to-date provisions of needlestick legislation specific to nuclear medicine
Eliminates the need to allocate resources to develop your own plan
PETPig™ delivery and administration system
Minimizes your radiation exposure from PET radiopharmaceuticals - from delivery to patient administration
Reduces radiation exposure more effectively than lead systems
Maximizes hand distance from the dose during receipt and transport
Is the only solid tungsten PET unit dose delivery system that serves as both a transport pig and syringe shield all in one – designed to drastically lower radiation exposure
Additional safety products from Cardinal Health include:
Lifetime™, Latchkey, SafeTview™ and Defender™ Tungsten Syringe Shields - for standard gamma-emitting radiopharmaceuticals
NeRD® - simple device to facilitate OSHA compliant one-handed needle recapping when no other alternatives are available
Latchkey Beta/Gamma Syringe Shields Piglet™, Piglet2™ and Piglet™ Accessories - for I-131 Sodium Iodide handling
>Safety extends beyond the work place
For more information on safety products and resources from Cardinal Health, please contact your local Cardinal Health Nuclear Pharmacy or Sales Consultant.