Radiation exposure to patients undergoing conventional and novel endoscopy procedures

Post written by Anmol Singh, MBBS, and Venkata Akshintala, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Our study highlights the quantity of radiation exposure incurred during common and novel endoscopic procedures and elucidates the factors affecting it. There has been an upward trend in …

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Use of flashing light to warn against radiation exposure

Post written by Bing Hu, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Our study focuses on whether a flashing warning light adopted as a behavioral intervention for performers reduces fluoroscopy time (FT) and radiation exposure during ERCP. ERCP is widely used in the diagnosis and treatment of biliary …

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