Radiation Exposure in Cardiac Catheterization

Radiation Exposure in Cardiac Catheterization | Circulation

Patient exposure during an interventional cardiology procedure averages 8 to 10 mSv, with some complex procedures using substantially greater ...

Radiation protection in the cardiac catheterization laboratory - PMC

Radiation-induced cataract or loss of transparency of the lens of the eye is one of the well-known risks in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. For acute ...

Update on Radiation Safety in the Cath Lab – Moving Toward a ...

Radiation exposure in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) is an occupational hazard that predisposes health care workers to the development of ...

Cardiac catheterisation: radiation doses and lifetime risk of malignancy

2007 Mar;93(3):370–371. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2006.098731 Cardiac catheterisation: radiation doses and lifetime risk of malignancy

Update on Radiation Safety in the Cath Lab - ScienceDirect.com

Radiation exposure in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) is an occupational hazard that predisposes health care workers to the development of ...

Radiation Exposure, Training, and Safety in Cardiology | JACC

Exposure to ionizing radiation is an inherent occupational health hazard in clinical cardiology. Health risks have been reported previously, ...

Radiation Doses to the Entire Catheterization Laboratory Team With ...

Radiation exposure in the cardiac catheterization laboratory is an occupational hazard to operators and staff members and has been linked to ...

Physicians' Radiation Exposure in the Catheterization Lab

With a supposed workload of 500 to 1,000 procedures per year for an operator conducting mainly CAG and PCI, we can assume a total effective dose of 0.25 to 0.5 ...

Radiation Safety in the Contemporary Cardiac Catheterization ...

The recommended fetal radiation dose limits in the United States are < 0.5 mSv (50 mrem) per month or < 5 mSv (500 mrem) during the entire pregnancy.10 Despite ...

Do You Know Your Radiation Dose During Your Cath?

A busy interventional cardiologist using good technique and proper protective equipment receives 2-4 mSv/year, with dose dependent upon time in the lab and ...

Measures to Reduce Radiation in a Modern Cardiac Catheterization ...

Although there have been several innovations that help monitor radiation dose and exposure in the catheterization laboratory, there have been ...

Shared Decision-Making in Radiation Exposure for Patients and ...

Diagnostic catheterization was performed in over 1.2 million hospitalizations during 2011, the second and third most common procedure for middle ...

Radiation Dose in Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization - JACC Journals

Radiation dose reduction was observed despite the increasing complexity of DCC. ... The findings allow for the definition of a diagnostic ...

Radiation Dose to the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization and ...

This article reports the radiation doses and related factors, such as fluoroscopy time, for children who underwent cardiac catheterization and children who ...

Defining the Cath Lab Workplace Radiation Safety Hazard | DAIC

The study found the left side of the operator is exposed to between 30-100 percent more X-ray radiation than the right side because of where ...

A review of radiation exposures associated with radial cardiac ...

Transradial (TR) cardiac catheterisation is thought to be associated with an increased exposure to radiation compared with the traditional transfemoral (TF) ...

Radiation Exposure in Cardiology Testing: How much is too much?

The radiation exposure from CTA is approximately 5 times that of coronary angiography and varies in intensity from 8 to 20 mSv.

Effective Reduction of Radiation Exposure during Cardiac ...

Exposure to ionizing radiation during cardiac catheterization can have harmful consequences for patients and for the medical staff involved ...

Physician Radiation Exposure During Endomyocardial Biopsy and ...

Radiation exposure in the cardiac catheterization laboratory is an occupational risk for cardiologists performing invasive procedures and may be a risk factor ...

Assessing and improving radiation safety in cardiac catheterization

Catheter laboratories are high-radiation exposure environments, especially during X-ray procedures like percutaneous transluminal coronary ...