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Gerryb
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9 years ago

Gated heart pool scan

Hi ladies, I have a Infusaport and am scheduled for a gated heart pool scan tomorrow. Can they use the port for the injection of radioactive tracker?

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  • They didn't have anyone trained in using ports when I had my gated heart pool scan so they had to use regular cannula. 
  • You need blood removed 1st then returned. My port doesn't always give back blood. Where I go isn't where I have chemo and they are technicians. ..so I wasn't keen on them using my port. However sometimes you coud get a nurse to access the port who has appropriate training....but no guarantees they can get blood so might still need tbst taken elsewhere. I know if scans done at my normal hospital...the chemo nurses have put lines in ready for the scan. I huess you will know more when you go
     Kath