Arun C. Nachiappan MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Gary Lloyd Horn MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Ray C. Mayo MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

David Matthew Wynne MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Benjamin R. Archer PhD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

John Austin Hancock MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Cliff J. Whigham DO, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

1) Review various sources of operator radiation dose during fluoroscopy. 2) Describe methods to decrease operator dose, which include appropriate shielding use, optimal positioning of operator and patient, collimation, lower fluoroscopic frame rate, and judicious use of digital subtraction angiography. 3) Discuss how one can institute a radiation safety educational program at one’s own institution.

1) Overview of sources of radiation to which the fluoroscopy operator is exposed. 2) Review of operator and patient dose monitoring methods 3) Review of department-wide strategies to lower operator radiation dose, including lowering fluoroscopy time, setting reference levels, encouraging vendor interaction, and hands-on orientation for new resident operators. 4) Discussion of steps to monitor and reevaluate educational program and ideas to incentivize decreased operator dose.

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Nachiappan, A, Horn, G, Mayo, R, Wynne, D, Archer, B, Hancock, J, Whigham, C, Operator Radiation Dose Reduction during Fluoroscopic Interventional Procedures in an Academic Setting.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14019359.html