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Posted At : 4/8/08 8:35 AM | Posted By : Trista A. Raymer
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston is opening our new PET/CT service starting April 23, 2008. This is a very exciting yet stressful time for the nuclear medicine department since we must not only learn the new equipment, but work with the radiologists to develop pediatric specific PET/CT protocols. We are also working with our scheduling team to clearly define how these patients will be scheduled. Currently, each patient will be scheduled in a 3 hour time slot with the first two hours devoted to the pre-scan workup and the last hour reserved for the scan itself. The final stage of our opening plan is to educate our referring physicians regarding the benefits of PET/CT. Our key audience is our oncology physicians and our neurologists however, other specialist such as endocrinologists are also interested in this imaging technique. To date, we have accomplished a lot and are still on target to open at the end of the month. It will be so nice to see all our hard work pay off!

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It appears that you have planned very well for your new PET/CT service by involving both radiologists and referring physicians. Good luck with your new venture!
# Posted By Judy | 4/17/08 9:06 PM
I admire techs who work exclusively with children. I wouldn't work in that type of setting if it was the last RT job left on earth.
# Posted By Ric | 4/21/08 2:15 PM
Hope your opening went well, not too many problems!
# Posted By Karen | 4/28/08 11:15 AM
This is a true example of once you set your mind to something, it can be accomplished. Your story is a leading example and motivation to us Radiologists not as established yet. I hope your opening went well and things are starting to run smoothly! Thanks for the inspiration!
# Posted By Dominic | 5/6/08 8:22 AM
Now that you have 2 weeks under your belt, how did it go?
# Posted By Karen | 5/6/08 8:37 AM
Best of luck to you. Those of us who work with pediatric patients are to be commended , for that is not an easy practice. Thanks from all of us who don't work in pediatrics !
# Posted By jeff | 5/8/08 6:29 AM
Working with kids is just as challenging as it is rewarding.
# Posted By Iva | 5/29/08 7:31 PM
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