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Steps You Can Take Today to Reduce Your Radiation Exposure
Radiation exposure is one of the most dangerous occupational hazards for cath lab workers, with interventional teams...
Are There Early Indicators of Excess Scatter Radiation Exposure?
You may not know that Interventional teams have some of the highest radiation exposure out of all other professions. ...
Scatter Matters: The Radiation Problem
Many interventional procedures in the cardiac catheterization laboratory use x-ray fluoroscopy, which requires the...
Reducing Radiation for Echocardiographers and Electrophysiologists
Behind the scenes of the field of Interventional Cardiology lies an often-overlooked danger: radiation exposure. While...
Anesthesiologists working in the cardiac catheterization laboratory are exposed to signifiantly more radiation
A personal dose meter placed on an anesthesia machine has been shown to receive 15 times the radiation compared to the...
11 steps every Cath Lab can take to reduce scatter radiation exposure to physicians and staff
*From the recently updated Cath Lab Guidelines from the SCAI 2021 Meeting: “SCAI Expert Consensus Update on Best...