The Great Unknown—A systematic literature review about risk associated with intraoperative imaging during orthopaedic surgeries

Injury

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1727-1734

  Matityahu, Amir ^a   Duffy, Ryan K ^a   Goldhahn, Sabine ^b   Joeris, Alexander ^b   Richter, Peter H ^c   Gebhard, Florian ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b AO FOUNDATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective dose; Equivalent dose; Fluoroscopy; Ionizing radiation; Minimal invasive surgery; Occupational risk; Orthopaedic surgery; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

FLUOROSCOPY; FOOT SURGERY; HAND SURGERY; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; IONIZING RADIATION; KYPHOPLASTY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAUMATOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; UTILIZATION;

FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 85021200750     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2017.04.041     Document Type: Review

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