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Calling all nurses, technicians, echo cardiographers, and anesthesiologists working in fluoroscopy-guided procedure...

“Saying you would not do everything possible to protect healthcare workers is nuts”   – Mark Goodwin, MD.  Are you a...

Cardiac interventionists and others who work in the catheterization lab face occupational risks caused by radiation...

As the prevalence of obesity in the general population of the U.S. increases, we consistently observe a rise in...

Radiation exposure is a major concern for women considering a career in cardiology, as it has been consistently cited...

Radiation exposure is one of the most dangerous occupational hazards for cath lab workers, with interventional teams...

You may not know that Interventional teams have some of the highest radiation exposure out of all other professions. ...

Many interventional procedures in the cardiac catheterization laboratory use x-ray fluoroscopy, which requires the...

Behind the scenes of the field of Interventional Cardiology lies an often-overlooked danger: radiation exposure. While...

A personal dose meter placed on an anesthesia machine has been shown to receive 15 times the radiation compared to the...