Marx M Victoria
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Tech Vasc Interv Radiol. 2018 Mar;21(1):32-36. doi: 10.1053/j.tvir.2017.12.007. Epub 2017 Dec 19.
This article reviews the issue of occupational radiation exposure as a deterrent to recruitment of women into the field of interventional radiology and provides the reader with three strategies to optimize radiation protection during fluoroscopically guided procedures. These include personal protective shielding, use of ancillary shielding, and techniques that limit fluoroscopy x-ray tube output. When optimal radiation safety practices are implemented as the norm in the IR suite, very little extra needs to be done to ensure that fetal dose of a pregnant interventionalist is negligible.
本文回顾了职业辐射暴露这一阻碍女性进入介入放射学领域的问题，并为读者提供了三种在透视引导操作过程中优化辐射防护的策略。这些策略包括个人防护屏蔽、使用辅助屏蔽以及限制透视X射线管输出的技术。当在介入放射学操作室将最佳辐射安全措施作为常规实施时，几乎无需额外采取措施就能确保怀孕介入放射科医生的胎儿剂量可忽略不计。
