Effectiveness of low rate fluoroscopy at reducing operator and patient radiation dose during transradial coronary angiography and interventions

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 567-574

  Abdelaal, Eltigani ^a   Plourde, Guillaume ^a   MacHaalany, Jimmy ^a   Arsenault, Jean ^a   Rimac, Goran ^a   Déry, Jean Pierre ^a   Barbeau, Gérald ^a   Larose, Eric ^a   De Larochellière, Robert ^a   Nguyen, Can M ^a   Allende, Ricardo ^a   Ribeiro, Henrique ^a   Costerousse, Olivier ^a   Mongrain, Rosaire ^b   Bertrand, Olivier F ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

dosimetry; imaging; percutaneous coronary intervention; radiation; transradial

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATOR; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION PROTECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CANADA; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; TIME; ADULT; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGIST; ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY;

AGED; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; QUEBEC; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84901315157     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: 18767605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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