Radiation Safety Among Cardiology Fellows

Kim, Candice; Vasaiwala, Samip; Haque, Faizul; Pratap, K.; Vidovich, Mladen I.

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.02.026

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“…Some recent studies have found that cardiologists who received a formal RP training were more likely to be aware of radiation safety than those who did not [10,11]. However, there is a lack of systematic analysis of the effect of RP training on dose reduction when performing interventional procedures.…”

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A Systematic Review of the Efficiency of Radiation Protection Training in Raising Awareness of Medical Staff Working in Catheterisation Laboratory

Alahmari¹,

Sun

2015

CMIR

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The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review of the efficiency of radiation protection (RP) training in minimising the radiation dose to both medical staff and patients.The literature search for the relevant articles was performed using five different databases which included Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Medline and ProQuest. The search covered English language publications in the period between 2000 and 2014. The search was also limited to peer-reviewed articles on human subjects and reporting patient doses, staff doses or both before and after RP training. The dose reductions were compared using percentage calculations. Ten articles met the inclusion criteria and were included in the study. Seven of these studies showed the value of the RP training by measuring the patient dose and the fluoroscopy time (FT) pre-and post-training , whereas the remaining two of the three studies focused on the occupational doses only and one reported patient and staff doses as well as the FT. After receiving training, a reduction was found in patient doses and FT with a mean and standard deviation of 49% ± 0.15 and 12% ± 0.15, respectively. Additionally, the analysis displayed an occupational dose reduction by a mean and standard deviation of 72% ± 0.14 after receiving training. This review shows the necessity and efficacy of RP training in order to provide a safer environment when utilising the fluoroscopic image-guided machines by medical staff working in the catheterisation laboratory.

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A Systematic Review of the Efficiency of Radiation Protection Training in Raising Awareness of Medical Staff Working in Catheterisation Laboratory

Alahmari¹,

Sun

2015

CMIR

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“…Nonradiologists are relatively uninformed about basic radiation principles (9). Invasive cardiologists, for example, demonstrate poor adherence to radiation protection (10), and not all fellows receive formal radiation education (11). Similarly, nearly half of vascular surgery fellows do not receive formal radiation training (12,13).…”

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Factors Associated with Reduced Radiation Exposure, Cost, and Technical Difficulty of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Retrieval

Neill

Charles

Pflager

et al. 2017

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings

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“…Optimization of protection can be achieved through continuing education and training of physicians in radiation physics and radiation protection (11,92,93). It has been shown that increasing operator awareness can lead to marked decreases in occupational dose (94,95).…”

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Occupational Radiation Protection of Pregnant or Potentially Pregnant Workers in IR: A Joint Guideline of the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe

Dauer

Miller

Schueler

et al. 2015

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

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Radiation Safety Among Cardiology Fellows

Cited by 58 publications

References 14 publications

A Systematic Review of the Efficiency of Radiation Protection Training in Raising Awareness of Medical Staff Working in Catheterisation Laboratory

A Systematic Review of the Efficiency of Radiation Protection Training in Raising Awareness of Medical Staff Working in Catheterisation Laboratory

Factors Associated with Reduced Radiation Exposure, Cost, and Technical Difficulty of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Retrieval

Occupational Radiation Protection of Pregnant or Potentially Pregnant Workers in IR: A Joint Guideline of the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe

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