Safety considerations during transapical aortic valve implantation

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 574-579

  Drews, Thorsten ^a   Pasic, Miralem ^a   Juran, Ralf ^b   Unbehaun, Axel ^a   Dreysse, Stephan ^a   Kukucka, Marian ^a   Mladenow, Alexander ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a   Buz, Semih ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Radiation; Safety; Transapical aortic valve implantation; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation; Valves; X ray

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANESTHESIST; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC SURGEON; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYE; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETER; FOOT; GERMANY; HAND; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; NURSE; PELVIS; PERCUTANEOUS AORTIC VALVE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SAFETY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THORAX; THYROID GLAND; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; X RAY DOSE DISTRIBUTION; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETRY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899564034     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivt560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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