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The purpose of this study was to collect information on the practice and patient doses in a major Greek cardiac centre, investigate differences between senior cardiologists of various levels of experience and compare results with the literature, in order to optimize angiographic and interventional cardiology procedures. Radiation doses from 292 patients have been studied, 195 of which had undergone coronary angiography and 97 percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. All procedures were undertaken on a Siemens Angioscop X-ray equipment. The system performed under automatic exposure control using pulsed fluoroscopy of 12.5 pulses s(-1) and cine frame rate of 25 frames s(-1). Dose-area product values, fluoroscopy times, total number of cine frames as well as operator's name were collected for each patient. Only senior cardiologists have participated in the study. Median values for dose-area product were 39.1 Gy cm(2) for coronary angiography and 58.3 Gy cm(2) for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Median fluoroscopy time was 5.0 min and 9.7 min and median number of frames was 1588 and 1823 for coronary angiography and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, respectively. Comparison showed that patient dose-area product values were lower than other studies and fluoroscopy time values were comparable. However, the total number of frames used was much higher than other published results. Differences between cardiologists with increased experience have been found. Analysis of the patient dose values obtained initiated a program of radiation protection, optimization. The need for continuous training in radiation protection for interventionalists has been verified.
Author(s): Tsapaki V, Kottou S, Vano E, Faulkner K, Giannouleas J, Padovani R, Kyrozi E, Koutelou M, Vardalaki E, Neofotistou V
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: British Journal of Radiology
Year: 2003
Volume: 76
Issue: 910
Pages: 726-730
ISSN (print): 0007-1285
ISSN (electronic): 1748-880X
Publisher: British Institute of Radiology
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr/73325000
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/73325000
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