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Radiation exposure to anesthesia personnel: the impact of an electrophysiology laboratory.

Katz JD

Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06517, USA. jonathan.katz@yale.edu

Anesthesia care providers are vulnerable to radiation exposure during a number of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In this study I examined the radiation exposure to members of a small department of anesthesiology. The aggregate radiation exposure to all members of the department doubled subsequent to the introduction of an electrophysiology laboratory.

Published 22 November 2005 in Anesth Analg, 101(6): 1725-6.
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