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The radiation safety education and the pain physicians' efforts to reduce radiation exposure
- Source :
- The Korean Journal of Pain
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND C-arm fluoroscopy equipment is important for interventional pain management and can cause radiation injury to physicians and patients. We compared radiation safety education and efforts to reduce the radiation exposure of pain specialists. METHODS A survey of 49 pain specialists was conducted anonymously in 2016. The questionnaire had 16 questions. That questionnaire was about radiation safety knowledge and efforts to reduce exposure. We investigated the correlation between radiation safety education and efforts of radiation protection. We compared the results from 2016 and a published survey from 2011. RESULTS According to the 2016 survey, all respondents used C-arm fluoroscopy in pain interventions. Nineteen respondents (39%) had received radiation safety education. Physicians had insufficient knowledge about radiation safety. When the radiation safety education group and the non-education group are compared, there was no significant difference in efforts to reduce radiation exposure and radiation safety knowledge. When the 2011 and 2016 surveys were compared, the use of low dose mode (P = 0.000) and pulsed mode had increased significantly (P = 0.001). The number checking for damage to radiation protective garments (P = 0.000) and use of the dosimeter had also increased significantly (P = 0.009). But there was no significant difference in other efforts to reduce radiation exposure. CONCLUSIONS Pain physicians seem to lack knowledge of radiation safety and the number of physicians receiving radiation safety education is low. According to this study, education does not lead to practice. Therefore, pain physicians should receive regular radiation safety education and the education should be mandatory.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Psychological intervention
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030202 anesthesiology
medicine
Fluoroscopy
Medical physics
Radiation protection
Radiation safety
Dosimeter
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Radiation exposure
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Emergency medicine
Pulsed mode
Safety education
Original Article
Interventional pain management
business
Pain procedure
Surveys and questionnaires
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20059159
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Korean journal of pain
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....df3e1fec1680baaf05014d4ace1080da