Normatividad para la administración de yodo-131 con fines de diagnóstico y/o tratamiento en México

In Mexico the services of nuclear medicine that administer radioactive materials to patients with diagnostic and/or therapeutics aims must observe the described requirements of radiologic security in Official Norm Mexican NOM-013-NUCL-1995. With the goal to disclose the content of this Norm we made this brief revision on the requirements of radiological security that must be observed to patients who has been administered this radioactive material with aims of diagnose and/or treatment in Mexico. At the moment effective requirements in Mexico were modified in EUA in 1997 based on an economic study that calculates that with the modifications they save 9 annual million of dollars in hospital/day stay and nonlabor lost time. In a economic field like ours, where the deficiency of resources and desire of saving is imperative, without decrement in the efficiency of services, will be of great value the initiating of the revision, by the respective authorities, of the NOM-013-NUCL-1995, in order to update it and to be able to offer the benefit of the therapeutic of I-131 to greater doses of until now allowed, since this could represent a significant savings and a smaller cost of these treatments for the country. Meanwhile, the NOM-013-NUCL-1995 is of obligatory observance in all the Mexican national territory.