Journal
JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 147-153Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.10.015
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- Joint Inter-Society Task Force on Occupational Hazards in the Interventional Laboratory
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Radiology
- Heart Rhythm Society
- Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
- Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals
- Society of Interventional Radiology
- Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery
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This document is a consensus statement by the major American societies of physicians who work in the interventional laboratory environment. It reviews available data on the prevalence of occupational health risks and summarizes ongoing epidemiologic studies designed to further elucidate these risks. Its purpose is to affirm that the interventional laboratory poses workplace hazards that must be acknowledged, better understood, and mitigated to the greatest extent possible. Vigorous efforts are advocated to reduce these hazards. Interventional physicians and their professional societies, working together with industry, should strive toward minimizing operator radiation exposure, eliminating the need for personal protective apparel, and ending the orthopedic and ergonomic consequences of the interventional laboratory work environment.
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