Radiation Dose readings extrapolated & converted to RADs from Schuller et al, Radiographics 2006
Why X-Drape® ?
It's about protecting your Hands, Arms & Especially Your Eyes . . .
In a 30 year career this amounts to 1,071 RADs, if the operator is standing upright. Far more if crouched or seated, about 5,184 Rads ...
Conventional Radiation Protection Strategies, including Leaded Glasses yield an approximate dose reduction of 45%. This is not enough.
An innovative solution that greatly reduces not only radiation to the eye, but also decreases body, hand & extremity dose is X-Drape® sterile X-ray Shields.
Located directly on the patient they stop most of the scattered radiation at its source, the patients body. They allow added X-ray Shielding when you need to work close to the patient.
Scatter Radiation is a Clinician’s worst enemy. Its directly linked to long term health problems and a serious long term health risk. The closer you are to the primary beam, the more you are at risk.
What are the facts?
The National & International Conferences on Radiation Protection (ICRP & NCRP) have set recommended standards. “Lens /Eye Dose should be limited to 15 RADs per year. “ (ICRP/NCRP)
They have also concluded that, “Cataracts occur with cumulative dose between 200 to 500 RADs (ICRP/NCRP)”
Based on an average Lens/ Eye Dose of .062 Rads per hour, shown below and an average of 576 hours of Fluoroscopy per year some clinicians are receiving doses of 35.7 RADs per year.
"leaded glasses or scatter shielding drapes substantially reduced lens dose by factors of 9.5 and 12 respectively. Maximal eye shileding was achieved by the use of both leaded glasses and a scatter-shielding drape" Drs. Dauer & Thorton, Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Center, Society of Interventional Radiology 2009
Scattered Radiation at the Operator Eye level
is in the range of .062 RAD per hour
Scattered Radiation at the Operator Eye level
is in the range of .062 RAD per hour
X-Drape® Sterile X-ray Shields have been proven to additionally reduce Dose an average of 70% and up to 98%
A recent study has drawn this conclusion,
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