SCAI multi‐society position statement on occupational health hazards of the catheterization laboratory: Shifting the paradigm for Healthcare Workers' Protection

Renewed attention has focused on the occupational health hazards posed by working in the fluoroscopic laboratory.1-6 Accumulated occupational radiation exposure is associated with health risks to physicians, nurses, and technologists working in this environment. Health care workers are subject to insidious health effects of radiation exposure over many years. Adverse effects include the established predilection to posterior subcapsular...