UKRG Handbook                       FORMULARY SECTION

A) 

NON-RADIOACTIVE REAGENTS AND DILUENTS.                       

Non Radioactive Reagents and Diluents - information  

The following products have been reported to be in regular or occasional use and are manufactured as specials with a suitable shelf life. Where known the manufacturer(s) are listed. Enquiries about specific products must be made direct to the relevant manufacturer who is providing a Manufacturing Service rather than advertising a particular product. Responsibility for the correct formulation and quality of the product is that of the purchaser. Note that when a particular product has a licence, the Department of Health recommends that the licensed product should be ordered unless a specific formulation is required.

1 ACD Solution BP Formula A
2 Hespan (6% Hetastarch in Normal Saline)
3 Tropolone in HEPES / Saline Buffer Injection
4 Benzyl Alcohol 1% in Sodium Chloride 0.9% Injection
5 Sodium Chloride 0.58% and Sodium Citrate dihydrate 1% Injection
6 Sodium Perchlorate Injection 20mg/ml
7  4.4% Disodium Edetate Solution equivalent
8 Adenosine Infusion 1mg/ml
9 Intrinsic Factor (Porcine) Capsules 100 mg
  
B)  

RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS

1: Technetium labelled Denatured Red Blood Cells
(Merseyside And Cheshire Radiopharmacy Services).
2:

Technetium In-Vitro Labelling of Red Blood Cells (City Hospital, Birmingham)

3: Radiopharmaceuticals for Gastric Emptying
4: 99mTc- (V) - DMSA
(Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge)
5: 99mTc-(V) - DMSA
(Birmingham City Hospital)
6: Method for Concentrating 99mTc Generator Eluate (for 99mTc-technegas preparation).
(Merseyside And Cheshire Radiopharmacy Services).
7: 111In-Indium Labelling of Platelets (using 111In-tropolonate)
Merseyside and Cheshire Radiopharmacy Services)
8: 111In-Indium Labelling of White Blood Cells (using 111In-tropolonate and includes lysis of red blood cells)
(Merseyside And Cheshire Radiopharmacy Services)
9.

111In-Indium Labelling of White Blood Cells (using 111In-tropolonate in plasma) (MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital)

10: Indium -111 Labelled Capsules  for investigation of colonic transit
(Nottingham University Hospital)
11: Ferrous Fumarate Solution  for iron absorption
(Nottingham University Hospital)
12: Carbon -14 Urea Solution  for detection of Helicobacter pylori
(Nottingham University Hospital)
13:

Carbon-14 Urea Capsules (City Hospital, Birmingham)

14: Radiopharmaceuticals for Protein-loss Enteropathy Studies
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