1155-81 Radiation exposure to patients during diagnostic cardiac catheterization
โ Scribed by Kunadian Vijayalakshmi; Dee Kelly; David Williams; Mark A de Belder
- Book ID
- 119548181
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1558-3597
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There has been a recent wave of concern over radiation exposure to patients during cardiac catheterization. Accordingly, we measured the area-exposure product (AEP) to patients undergoing diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization procedures. Fluoroscopic and cinefluorographic exposures w
A detailed monitoring, on the basis of single procedures, was undertaken to assess the patient exposure and the occupational doses received by the operators (cardiologist, technician, and nurse) during diagnostic coronary angiography (CAG) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). T