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Edith Quimby (1891–1982)
…what we now call radiation scatter, and her early film badge program helped build the safety practices that protect interventional teams to this day.
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Cancer risk from professional exposure in staff working in cardiac catheterization laboratory: insights from the National Research Council's Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation VII Report
…is a model-based projection (BEIR VII) from under-apron dosimeter readings, not observed cancer cases; the sample is small (26 workers selected, 15 with long records analysed for risk) and selected…
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Bill Orrison
…throughout his career. Like many others, radiation badges and radiation safety did not prevent Bill from long hours performing multiple interventional procedures a day.
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Radiation exposure in interventional cardiology: Implications for patients and healthcare workers
…among the fluoroscopy team, based on thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) measurements; no dose figures were reported in the abstract.
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Risk of ionizing radiation in pregnancy: just a myth or a real concern?
A fellow wearing an abdominal dosimeter and two apron skirts recorded zero foetal exposure across 758 neurointerventional cases without reducing case volume. (758 cases; 47 vs 46 cases/month, p =…
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Radiation Exposure Among Scrub Technologists and Nurse Circulators During Cardiac Catheterization
…so time-related changes in practice may confound results; dosimeter-based dose measures, not health outcomes; single-setting details not reported in the abstract.
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Operator Exposure To X-Ray In Left And Right Radial Access During Percutaneous Coronary Procedures: OPERA Randomised Study
…trial reported only as an abstract, with no detail on dosimeter type, placement or number of operators. Diagnostic procedures only, and the dose difference per procedure is small with wide…
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A summary of recommendations for occupational radiation protection in interventional cardiology
…geometry and shielding, avoid high-scatter areas, wear dosimeters, review monitoring results, and train all personnel, with particular attention to eye lens dose.
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Surgeon Radiation Dose During Complex Endovascular Procedures
…dosimetry with modest case numbers per procedure type and dosimeters at only two body sites outside the apron; no measurement of eye, hand or head dose, and the null ceiling-shield result may reflect…
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Near zerO fluoroscopic exPosure during catheter ablAtion of supRavenTricular arrhYthmias: the NO-PARTY multicentre randomized trial
…Operator dose came from cumulative chest thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) on the first operator only, with no data for nurses, technologists or other staff and no operator risk estimates; cancer…
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Japan - Ionizing Radiation Regulations (English)
Employers must measure worker doses with dosimeters worn on the chest (or abdomen for women) plus the most exposed body region, and keep records for 30 years. (30 years)
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Occupational radiation exposure to nursing staff during cardiovascular fluoroscopic procedures: A review of the literature
…studies with poorly defined nurse roles, varied dosimeter types, placement and calibration, and inconsistent dose reporting, which prevents direct comparison or pooling.
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OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1096 - Ionizing Radiation Standard
…1¼ rem whole-body limit. It requires employers to provide dosimeters, keep exposure records, train workers and report overexposures. It is regulation, not research data.
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Operator radiation exposure comparing left-radial artery and right-radial artery approaches: A systematic review and meta-analysis
…apply to labs with standard shielding, and outcomes are dosimeter exposure rather than health effects.
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Radiation Exposure of Operators Performing Transesophageal Echocardiography During Percutaneous Structural Cardiac Interventions
…centre count or number of operators, and per-procedure dosimeter doses are not health outcomes.
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Two Central Nervous System Tumors in One Catheter Lab: Time to Rethink Radiation Protection
Operator dosimeters were worn under lead at the right hip, giving no information on head or neck dose.
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Occupational Radiation Exposure During Endovascular Aortic Repair
…study of 44 procedures using a single over-lead chest dosimeter per person, so doses to unshielded areas such as the lens and hands were not captured; only apron and thyroid collar were used, and the…
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Radiation Exposure and Protection for (Assumed) Pregnant Interventional Cardiologists and Electrophysiologists
Limits: Single-center study with dosimeters taped outside garments, mostly non-pregnant participants, and 6-month readings extrapolated to 40 weeks; shield use and positioning were uncontrolled, and…
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Radiation-Induced DNA Damage in Operators Performing Endovascular Aortic Repair
Leg-level dosimeter readings were higher than chest readings, and about twice as high in complex versus standard EVAR. (≈2-fold higher leg exposure; P<0.0001)
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Occupational radiation exposure of radiologic technologists in Interventional neuroradiology
…to a year, mostly fixed-position rather than worn dosimeters; experimental measurements used a head-only phantom, single unrepeated readings, and a monitor that may have been saturated by pulsed high…
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