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Radiation protection in interventional cardiology
Cardiologists are among the most intensive users of fluoroscopy in the medical profession, if not the most frequent. However, many of them are unaware that they may be exposing patients to relatively high levels of radiation during cardiac catheterization procedures - levels much higher than those handled by many radiologists. While staff protection is important, there are bigger issues of patient protection in interventional procedures using X rays.