WASHINGTON—Healthcare professionals performing minimally invasive procedures in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called “cath labs,” should no longer have to accept preventable radiation exposure and ...

Is the equipment designed to protect healthcare workers in cath labs doing more harm than good? For years, concerns about clinicians working in fluoroscopy labs have centered on the long-term dangers ...

WASHINGTON—Nine leading medical societies are calling for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called “cath labs,” where clinicians performing minimally invasive procedures face ...

Over the last decade, we’ve seen a surge in robust data documenting the health risks of chronic, low-dose radiation exposure, not just for operators, but also for the entire team in the lab. At the ...

Operators at one institution were able to decrease their patient radiation substantially over a 12-year period despite, in some cases, minimal technological improvements in the cath lab, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An initiative reduced patient and cath lab staff exposure to procedural radiation during PCI. Air kerma may be a ...