Radiation monitoring in interventional cardiology: a requirement

8th International Congress of Engineering Physics

物理学;工业技术

Rivera, T.^1 ; Uruchurtu, E.S.^2

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CICATA-Legaria, México

11500, Mexico^1

Hospital Juarez de Mexico, Unidad de Hemodinamia, México

07760, Mexico^2

关键词: Interventional cardiology;    Medical staffs;    Radiation monitoring;    Reliable methods;    Scattered radiations;    Skin injuries;    Staff members;    X-ray device;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/792/1/012098/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/792/1/012098

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The increasing of procedures using fluoroscopy in interventional cardiology procedures may increase medical and patients to levels of radiation that manifest in unintended outcomes. Such outcomes may include skin injury and cancer. The cardiologists and other staff members in interventional cardiology are usually working close to the area under examination and they receive the dose primarily from scattered radiation from the patient. Mexico does not have a formal policy for monitoring and recording the radiation dose delivered in hemodynamic establishments. Deterministic risk management can be improved by monitoring the radiation delivered from X-ray devices. The objective of this paper is to provide cardiologist, techniques, nurses, and all medical staff an information on DR levels, about X-ray risks and a simple a reliable method to control cumulative dose.