This multi-society position statement highlights the occupational health hazards, particularly radiation exposure, faced by healthcare workers in the catheterization laboratory and advocates for improved protection paradigms.
Renewed attention has focused on the occupational health hazards posed by working in the fluoroscopic laboratory ([1–6][1]). Accumulated occupational radiation exposure is associated with health risks to physicians, nurses, and technologists working in this environment. Health care workers are
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Klein et al. (2020) studied this question. Accumulated occupational radiation exposure in the catheterization laboratory is associated with health risks to physicians, nurses, and technologists.
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