Which one is at risk in intraoperative fluoroscopy? Assistant surgeon or orthopaedic surgeon?

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 242-244

  Tasbas, Bulent A ^a,b   Yagmurlu, M Firat ^a   Bayrakci, Kenan ^a   Ucaner, Ahmet ^a   Heybeli, Memduh ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Occupational exposure; Orthopaedics; Radiation dosage; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOM; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SHIELD; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SURGEON; X RAY;

EID: 0037899040     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-003-0516-x     Document Type: Article

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