Open AccessRadiation Safety Perceptions and Practices Among Pediatric Anesthesiologists: A Survey of the Physician Membership of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
Author(s) -
Gina M. Whitney,
James J. Thomas,
Thomas M. Austin,
Jemel Fanfan,
Myron Yaster
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000003773
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , odds ratio , odds , ordered logit , logistic regression , ordinal regression , test (biology) , family medicine , exact test , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , biology
Pediatric anesthesiologists are exposed to ionizing radiation from x-rays on an almost daily basis. Our goal was to determine the culture of safety in which they work and how they adhere to preventative strategies that minimize exposure risk in their daily practice.