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Monitoring radiation exposure is a concern for the health care worker and patients. Health care workers are usually monitored and restricted to 100 mSv effective dose every 5 years and a maximum of 50 mSv in any given year. Patients on the other hand are exposed to ever increasing utilization of radiographic procedures for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. The effects of radiation exposure are cumulative and no level of exposure can be considered to be “safe.” Therefore vigilance of radiation exposure is absolutely critical in the safe performance of cardiovascular fluoroscopy.
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Nanavati, S.M., Sawhney, R., Owens, C.D. (2012). Principles of Diagnostic Angiography. In: Owens, C., Yeghiazarians, Y. (eds) Handbook of Endovascular Peripheral Interventions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0839-0_6
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