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Makes you wonder how safe the hospital staff is using XR fluoroscopy day in day out? (Cath Labs, GI teams, etc.)

• athenot 3y ago
  They wear 30lb lead aprons. On a practical note, it's back strain from having that thing on 10-12h a day.
  • sarchertech 3y ago
    They're supposed to, but they frequently don't according to my wife (ER doctor).
    • DoingIsLearning 3y ago
      From my experience everyone uses it (perhaps the emergency setting is more intense). But my point on low radiation is that you are not behind a lead wall. Below knees, arms, head are exposed. Depending on the design the seams between sections of the protective gear will also leak. And the protective gear gets tested but only periodically not before every use. All in all everything seems to align with some probability of prolongued low radiation exposure much like nuclear power plant staff.