Egg Medical, Inc. articles

Background: Exposure of the heart team to scatter radiation is a serious environmental risk in the cardiac cath lab. While spot shielding reduces operator exposure, its effectiveness in reducing overall room scatter radiation (SR) levels, particularly during imaging with angulated x-ray views, is limited. We evaluated the effectiveness of a new, passive protection system (the EggNest) to reduce overall personnel exposure using x-ray projections commonly used for coronary and structural heart

Background
Radiation exposure that physicians and hospital staff receive while treating patients has recently been associated with a marked increase in cancer, cataracts, and skin lesions. Staff in cardiac catheterization and interventional radiology laboratories have the highest radiation exposure of any profession, despite the use of standard x-ray shields.