Newly released recommendations for pediatric radiation safety will be discussed during the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2017 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans. The
\nposition paper, “Radiation Safety in Children with Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease: A Scientific Position Statement on Multimodality Dose Optimization from the Image Gently Alliance,” provides cardiologists,
\nradiologists, pediatricians and internal medicine physicians guidance for treating pediatric patients with
\ncongenital and acquired heart disease (CAHD). Leading experts will discuss these recommendations during the
\nImage Gently Campaign: Radiation Safety in Pediatric Catheterization session, Wednesday, May 10, 3:00 p.m.
\nCDT.<\/p>\n
Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting an estimated one million children living in
\nthe U.S. Forms of acquired heart disease affect an additional one out of every 100,000 children and adolescents annually. Children with CAHD often have complex diseases and many require life-long medical care. As part of their care, they often require cardiac imaging procedures that use ionizing radiation. While these imaging procedures, including fluoroscopically guided procedures such as cardiac catheterization, computed tomography scans, and nuclear medicine studies, are critical for accurate diagnosis and intervention, ionizing radiation in high doses can be harmful. There is general recognition that procedural ionizing radiation doses should be kept as low as reasonably achievable.<\/p>\n
“There is a need for consensus recommendations for ionizing radiation dose optimization and a regulation of
\ndose metrics across imaging procedures,” said lead author Kevin D. Hill, MD, Division of Pediatric Cardiology,
\nDuke University Medical Center. “Our goal is to focus on approaches that, when properly implemented, will
\nlessen radiation risks for children with heart disease while still allowing the imaging procedures to be effective.”<\/p>\n
Recommendations include strategies for dose optimization during:\n<\/p>\n
\nOther strategies to improve care include a patient-centered approach to imaging, emphasizing education and
\ninformed decision making, and programmatic approaches to ensure appropriate dose monitoring.<\/p>\n
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Click here<\/a> to download “Radiation Safety in Children with Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease: A Scientific Note to editors: For media registration or to arrange an interview, please contact Kimberly Brown at For the most up-to-date program information, please visit: http:\/\/www.scai.org\/SCAI2017<\/a>. Join the conversation online <\/p>\n About SCAI<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is a 4,300-member professional organization representing invasive and interventional cardiologists in approximately 70 countries. SCAI’s mission is to promote excellence in invasive\/interventional cardiovascular medicine through physician and allied health professional education and representation, and advancement of quality standards to enhance patient care. For more information about SCAI, visit http:\/\/www.SCAI.org<\/a>. Follow @SCAI on Twitter for the latest heart health news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Newly released recommendations for pediatric radiation safety will be discussed during the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2017 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans. The position paper, “Radiation Safety in Children with Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease: A Scientific Position Statement on Multimodality Dose Optimization from the Image Gently Alliance,” provides cardiologists, radiologists, pediatricians Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPosition Statement on Multimodality Dose Optimization from the Image Gently Alliance.” This paper was
\npublished online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/em> on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Disclosures
\nnoted in paper.<\/p>\n
\nkbrown@scai.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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