Occupational health hazards in the interventional laboratory: progress report of the Multispecialty Occupational Health Group.
The Multispecialty Occupational Health Group (MSOHG), formed in 2005, is an informal coalition of societies representing professionals who work in, or are concerned with, interventional fluoroscopy. The group's long-term goals are to improve occupational health and operator and staff safety in the interventional laboratory while maintaining quality patient care and optimal use of the laboratory. MSOHG has conducted a dialogue with equipment manufacturers and has developed a list of specific objectives for research and development. The group has also represented the member societies in educating regulators, in educating interventionalists, and in fostering and collaborating on research into occupational health issues affecting interventionalists. Not least of the group's accomplishments, as a result of their collaboration in MSOHG, the group's members have developed a mutual respect that can serve as a basis for joint efforts in the future among interventionalists of different medical specialties.
Miller
Donald L
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Department of Radiology, National Naval Medical Center, 8901 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD 20889-5600, USA. donald.miller@med.navy.mil
Klein
Lloyd W
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Balter
Stephen
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Norbash
Alexander
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Haines
David
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Fairobent
Lynne
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Goldstein
James A
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D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004867:Equipment Design; D006804:Ergonomics; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D005471:Fluoroscopy / Q000009:adverse effects; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D016272:Occupational Health; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D011835:Radiation Protection; D015641:Radiography, Interventional / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace
D015386:Hazardous Substances