One wishes that it were - 'just akin to an airplane flight'... Not so Megan.
There has been a deal of information recently, like over the past year, on the dangers of radiation exposure, and there is alaso concern emerging on radiation scatter (as in/like with those airport scanners). Doctors have woken upto the fact that there has been/is too much rad exposure. The information is out there.
18,200 hits on radiation exposure, specific to CT scans, here's just a few:-
CT Radiation warning, ct scan radiation
Web ResultsCT Scans to be Equipped with Markers to Prevent Radiation ...
Feb 26, 2010 ... But CT scans deliver a much higher radiation dose than ... It would also offer a red alert warning when a patient is about to be given a ...
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CT Scan Manufacturers Pledge to Add Radiation Gauges After ...
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DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog: FDA Warning: ...
FDA Warning: Excessive Radiation from CT Brain Perfusion Scans. By Catherine D. Bertram, Esquire. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, ...
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[PPT]Radiation Safety in the PET Facility
Radiation Warning Signs. Cyclotron. PET/CT Scanner. “Hot” Lab. Record Retention. Shipping and Receiving (3 years); Area Surveys and Trash Surveys (3 years) ...
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[PDF]Radiation Safety Standard: Computed tomography ...
Radiation Warning Sign and Light. Radiation warning signs must be displayed on the outside of all entrances to the CT room. The entrance to the CT room must ...
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Radiation From CT Scans May Raise Cancer Risk : NPR
Dec 15, 2009 ... Doctors love the detailed pictures created by CT scans. Patients often expect a scan. But now
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(and of course more of the same, 18,194... Note dates - and I have posted several times in rcent months on these specific CT radiation warnings. ANY decent radiologist worth their salt, will impress that one cannot be too careful on considering your level of rad exposure.)-------------------
ONE CT scan is equivalent to
120 standard X-Ray exposures, *at the same time*. i.e. `not spaced out over a number of months or years. Full dose, in one hot shot! That is a number, and any radiologist will advise that 120 X-Ray exposures is somewhat dangerous, let alone the cumulative effect of additional standard X-Rays...and let alone the possibility of adding in long distance flights or owt else in the world outside of medecine and diagnostics...
Hospitals are now saying that too many CTs are being requested and that the radiology industry needs to do summat about actually cutting *down the level of rad exposure. The FDA has jumpoed in with advice, and these strictures are *now being implemented*, but has only 'just' started to be implemented, and that is in/with the new scanning machines.
Can only hope that hospitals look to themselves and their diagnostic equipment and take on board the MANY recommendations.
Remember the radiologist in the UK has warned me about my own level of rad exposure. He says, too much - which same has not been countered by medics over here in France: they agree, too many X-Ray exposures. That is X-Rays, CT Scans and a Nuclear Bone Scan, and tjhis spaced out over a few years - which does not take into account any long haul flights or any scatter radiation or owt else outside of medecine! Now, no more X-Rays, will only consider MRI. Got enough problems without the (probability of) adding to em.
