If a person is scheduled for PRRT before coming to Bad Berka, then the most common schedule is as follows. Note that the exact order and day plan may vary depending upon the patient's type of treatment (Y90, LU177 or both)  or how busy the ward and/or other departments are.

• Sunday Afternoon -- Check in to the Zentralklinik.  Usually a patient must make arrangements to pay for treatment with finance before they check in to the Klinik. Enterance / Registration Desk-New- Patients will recive a ID wristband as of summer 2012.
After check in you will go to Nuclear Medicine Ward to get room assignment, blood test and general instructions. Also, you will get an electronic FOB that will give you access to the Ward while you are there. Only patients are allowed in the Ward. 

• Monday morning – begin tests and scans. Typically the renal testing is first, followed by the 68-Gallium PET/CT scan. If other tests are needed such as an Ultra Sound or echocardiogram, then these may be done throughout the day or on Tuesday.

• Monday Afternoon. Once the results of the renal and 68-Gallium tests are reviewed by Dr. Baum and his staff, Dr. Baum meets with the patient (and a patient caregiver or companion, if present).  It is Dr. Baum's practice to explain the next steps for the PRRT. Depending upon the outcome of the scan and tests, this consultation can last from 30-45 minutes. Typically Dr. Baum discusses the findings from the various tests and scans, most especially the 68-Ga PET/CT scan, but also the other tests that have a bearing on receiving the PRRT. The patient is told what kind of isotope treatment they are likely to receive.

• Tuesday – Depending upon the type of isotope to be used in the treatment, a patient may receive PRRT on Tuesday afternoon or on Wednesday. The past pattern has been for Lu-177 to be done on Tuesdays and Y-90  or combination of the two to be done on Wednesday. Once the treatment is given, the patient must remain in their own room for 24 hours except when going to a scanning room that is in the Ward. Several scans are done during this time frame.

• Wednesday – If the patient receives PRRT on Tuesday, then they will remain in the room until the expiration of the 24-hour time period. After 24 hours, the patient can go into the Nuclear Medicine Ward and is free to move about. Patients never have visitors in the ward, but friends or companions can bring things to the Ward and a nurse will get items to the patient. The day after treatment the patient will do several body scans during the day to determine how well the radioactive material is getting to the body. tumor and dissipating in the

 

• Thursday – If treatment was given on Tuesday, then once 48 hours is over the patient is free to walk outside the Ward and free to see visitors outside the Ward. Typically a patient is not discharged on this day. Patients that were treated on Wednesday are free to move about the ward on this day.

• Friday – If treatment was given on Tuesday, then a patient is usually discharged on Friday. This means that the patient will see Dr. Baum for a review of their treatment and next steps, as well as meet with people from finance to close out the billing for the treatment. In some cases, patients are asked to undergo a final 18-F FDG PET scan. This is usually done on Friday morning.

Friday afternoon or early evening is when the patient usually sees Dr. Baum. Sometimes patients are fatigued or feel nauseous after the PRRT and this condition may persist for several days. Those patients may not be discharged until Saturday.