Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Implementation of a safety timeout significantly reduced radiation exposure during electrophysiology ...

Radiation exposure during cardiac procedures to diagnose and treat pediatric heart rhythm disturbances is not insignificant. Using a new safety protocol of continuous real-time radiation monitoring, ...

One volunteer at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is using his artistic skills to color radiation masks that patients can use during cancer treatments.

Dr Rajjit Abrol (University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas) and associates noted that many factors influence the extent of radiation exposure during procedures and that standard protective measures may ...

Compared with interventional cardiologists, interventional imagers are exposed to markedly higher levels of radiation during structural heart procedures, according to new single-center data. These ...

» Is there a relationship between staff dose and patient dose in fluoroscopy? Yes. Reducing patient dose will lower staff doses too. However the opposite is not true as staff dose can be reduced by ...