Radiation exposure to patients and medical personnel during radiofrequency catheter ablation for supraventricular tachycardia

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 218-223

  Lindsay, Bruce D ^a   Eichung, John O ^a   Ambos, H Dieter ^a   Cain, Michael E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER RISK; CATHETER ABLATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART PREEXCITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ELECTROCOAGULATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0026751433     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(92)91278-C     Document Type: Article

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