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Indonesia: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year. Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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Saudi Arabia: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year. Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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Italy: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year. Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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Mexico: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 50 mSv/year, 100 mSv/5 years. Lens of the eye: 150 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 2 mSv to fetus
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Turkey: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year. Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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South Africa: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year. Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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CRP Statement on Tissue Reactions / Early and Late Effects of Radiation in Normal Tissues and Organs, Threshold Doses for Tissue Reactions in a Radiation Protection Context
This International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) review lowered the practical threshold for cataract to about 0.5 Gy and proposed a similar, uncertain threshold for circulatory disease,…
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Brazil: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year (5-year average). Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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Increasing Awareness and Reducing Occupational Hazards in the Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Laboratories: Working to Eliminate Lead and Complications of Radiation in Cardiovascular Team Study
…lead over 4 hours daily was linked to orthopedic injury. Pregnant workers reported few accommodations. Self-reported uptake of a brief ergonomics video was high.
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India: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year (5-year average). Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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Radiation Exposure, Training, and Safety in Cardiology
…techniques, lighter aprons, lead-free systems and pregnancy accommodations. It presents no new data.
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China: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year. Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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France: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year. Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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Argentina: radiation protection rules for healthcare workers
Whole body: 20 mSv/year (5-year average). Lens of the eye: 20 mSv/year. Skin: 500 mSv/year. Hands and feet: 500 mSv/year. Pregnancy: 1 mSv to fetus
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Male reproductive impairment linked to occupational ionizing radiation exposure in radiology workers
In a small case-control study of 60 men, radiology workers with occupational radiation exposure had lower sperm concentration, more abnormal sperm, higher NK cell levels and reduced TNP1 expression…
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Mitochondrial DNA alterations in mothers and offspring following in utero exposure to ionizing radiation
In pregnant mice given single X-ray doses, offspring had raised mitochondrial DNA copy number from 0.2 Gy and mothers showed changes at higher doses. These are animal biomarker findings at high doses,…
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Operator Pelvic Radiation Exposure During Percutaneous Coronary Procedures
In one interventional cardiologist's coronary procedures, dosimeter readings at the pelvis were about seven times higher than at the chest, regardless of radial or femoral access. This is a dose…
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Beir VII: Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation
This National Research Council brief on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) VII estimates that 100 mSv of x-ray or gamma radiation may cause about one extra cancer per 100 people in the…
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Occupational Protection in Interventional Radiology. A Joint Guideline of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe and the Society of Interventional Radiology
…including dosimetry, eyewear and shields, ergonomics, pregnancy, computed tomography (CT)-guided work and radioembolization; it reports that pregnant staff can keep working with standard protection.
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Reproductive effects of low to moderate medical radiation exposure
This review estimates that interventional cardiologists receive about 50 to 100 microSv gonad dose under the apron per procedure, adding up to 0.5-1 Sv over a career, but evidence linking such doses…
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