Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-35-181b

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 28-35-181b - Specific licenses to individual physicians for human use of radioactive material

(a) A specific license for the human use of radioactive materials outside of a medical institution shall not be issued to an individual physician unless:

(1) The applicant has access to a hospital and adequate facilities are available for the hospitalization and monitoring of the applicant's radioactive patients when such action is advisable; and

(2) the applicant has extensive experience in the proposed use, handling and administration of radioactive material, and where applicable, clinical management of radioactive patients. The physician shall furnish evidence of this experience with the application for the specific license.

(b) The secretary shall not approve an application by an individual physician or group of physicians for a specific license to receive, possess, or use radioactive material on the premises of a medical institution unless:

(1) The use of radioactive material is limited to:

(A) The administration of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes;

(B) the performance of diagnostic studies on patients to whom a radiopharmaceutical has been administered;

(C) the performance of in vitro diagnostic studies; and

(D) calibration and quality control checks of radioactive assay instrumentation, radiation safety instrumentation and diagnostic instrumentation;

(2) the physician brings the radioactive material to the institution for each use and removes the radioactive material from the institution after each use; and

(3) the medical institution or institutions at which the radioactive materials are to be used by the physician or physicians do not hold a specific license under K.A.R. 28-35-181a.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-35-181b

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 1984 Supp. 48-1607; effective, T-86-37, Dec. 11, 1985; effective May 1, 1986.