Radiation injury is potentially a severe consequence of fluoroscopically guided complex interventions.
Fluoroscopically guided interventions and radiation injury: Is physician training in radiation management adequate? Radiation injury from fluoroscopically guided complex medical interventions is relatively rare but sometimes seriously debilitating. This manuscript provides a summary of their occurrence. The question is raised as to whether or not the seriousness of these radiation effects and their underlying causes are sufficient justification to warrant new proposals on how to credential physicians before they are declared qualified to perform complex interventional procedures.
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Louis.K.Wagner@uth.tmc.edu
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D005471:Fluoroscopy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D008007:Licensure, Medical / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration