Managing patient dose in interventional cardiology

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 244-249

  Balter, Stephen ^a   Moses, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Interventional; Radiation injuries; Radiation monitoring; Radiodermatitis radiology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION MONITORING; SKIN INJURY; TECHNIQUE;

AGED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW YORK; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; TERMINOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547642179     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21141     Document Type: Article

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