Authors: Keith J. Strauss, MSc, Eric L. Gingold, PhD, and Donald P. Frush, MD Shielding the gonads, especially when imaging children with ionizing radiation, has been widely accepted as good radiologic practice since it was introduced approximately 60 years ago [1, 2], when some of the first estimates of radiation dose to the reproductive organs […]
Objectives To quantify the number of shunt-related imaging studies that patients with ventricular shunts undergo and to calculate the proportion of computed tomography (CT) scans associated with a surgical intervention. Study design Retrospective longitudinal cohort analysis of patients up to age 22 years with a shunt placed January 2002 through December 2003 at a pediatric […]
Background: We examined the relationship between estimated radiation dose from CT scans and subsequent Hodgkin lymphoma in the UK pediatric CT scans cohort. Methods: A retrospective, record linkage cohort included patients ages 0 to 21 years who underwent CT scans between 1980 and 2002 and were followed up for cancer or death until 2008. Poisson […]
Researchers at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida have performed the first procedure in a pediatric and young adult brain tumor study. The trial aims to demonstrate feasibility and safety of using focused ultrasound to ablate a variety of benign tumors located in the central part of the brain in ten patients, ages 8 to […]
In December of 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a safety warning concerning the risk of repeated use of general anesthetics and sedation drugs in young children and pregnant women1. From a review of the literature, including both animal and human studies, the FDA found consensus data to suggest that early, repeated exposure may […]
The Market and Research study, titled Worldwide X-Ray Safety Glasses Market 2017, presents critical information and factual data about the X-Ray Safety Glasses market globally, providing an overall statistical study of the X-Ray Safety Glasses market on the basis of market drivers, X-Ray Safety Glasses Market limitations, and its future prospects. The prevalent global X-Ray […]
