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Fluoroscopic time: Necessary but not sufficient
Author(s) -
Balter Stephen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.25814
Subject(s) - medicine , fluoroscopy , radiation exposure , measure (data warehouse) , operator (biology) , medical physics , radiation protection , radiology , hazard , key (lock) , radiation dose , radiation , contrast (vision) , nuclear medicine , data mining , computer vision , optics , computer security , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , repressor , computer science , transcription factor , gene
Key Points Contrast utilization and fluoroscopic time decreased over time due to increased operator proficiency. There is no estimate of radiation hazard because radiation utilization was not recorded. Fluoroscopic time is an increasingly imprecise measure of radiation risk because of improving equipment configurations.