Radiation safety in pain medicine

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine | May 1, 2002| | Copyright

Pain specialists frequently employ fluoroscopy to guide injection procedures. Although safe use of fluoroscopy requires an understanding of basic principles of radiation, radiation safety remains underrepresented in the information available to pain specialists. For example, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported 26 cases of radiation-induced burns to patients from fluoroscopically guided procedures in the period from 1992 to 1995.(1) As a result of these occasional, but severe injuries, the FDA issued an advisory in 1994 regarding the need for proper training for all ...

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