| ICRP PUBLICATION 120: Radiological Protection in Cardiology. | |
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PMID: 23141687 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Cardiac nuclear medicine, cardiac computed tomography (CT), interventional cardiology procedures, and electrophysiology procedures are increasing in number and account for an important share of patient radiation exposure in medicine. Complex percutaneous coronary interventions and cardiac electrophysiology procedures are associated with high radiation doses. These procedures can result in patient skin doses that are high enough to cause radiation injury and an increased risk of cancer. Treatment of congenital heart disease in children is of particular concern. Additionally, staff(1) in cardiac catheterisation laboratories may receive high doses of radiation if radiological protection tools are not used properly. The Commission provided recommendations for radiological protection during fluoroscopically guided interventions in Publication 85, for radiological protection in CT in Publications 87 and 102, and for training in radiological protection in Publication 113 (ICRP, 2000b,c, 2007a, 2009). This report is focused specifically on cardiology, and brings together information relevant to cardiology from the Commission's published documents. There is emphasis on those imaging procedures and interventions specific to cardiology. The material and recommendations in the current document have been updated to reflect the most recent recommendations of the Commission. This report provides guidance to assist the cardiologist with justification procedures and optimisation of protection in cardiac CT studies, cardiac nuclear medicine studies, and fluoroscopically guided cardiac interventions. It includes discussions of the biological effects of radiation, principles of radiological protection, protection of staff during fluoroscopically guided interventions, radiological protection training, and establishment of a quality assurance programme for cardiac imaging and intervention. As tissue injury, principally skin injury, is a risk for fluoroscopically guided interventions, particular attention is devoted to clinical examples of radiation-related skin injuries from cardiac interventions, methods to reduce patient radiation dose, training recommendations, and quality assurance programmes for interventional fluoroscopy. |
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M Sasaki; C Cousins; D L Miller; G Bernardi; M M Rehani; P Schofield; E Vañó; A J Einstein; B Geiger; P Heintz; R Padovani; K-H Sim |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Annals of the ICRP Volume: 42 ISSN: 1872-969X ISO Abbreviation: Ann ICRP Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2012-11-12 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7708044 Medline TA: Ann ICRP Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1-125 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd. |
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