IRMER and Radiation Protection for Cardiologists and Vascular Surgeons
OUR IRMER COURSES ARE CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED AND ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THE MOMENT
This course is worth 8 CPD hours
M&K Update have provided a classroom based courses on Radiation Protection for the past 10 years. We have developed an eLearning resource specifically for Cardiologists and Vascular Surgeons.
The course consists of three modules covering -
- Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations IR(ME)R 2000
- What is radiation
- Biological effects of radiation, risks and benefits
- Patient management, dose and its measurement
- Responsibilities of key personnel in the context of the regulations
- Duties and responsibilities of the employer, operator
- Practitioner and medical physics expert in the context of the regulations
- Justification, authorisation and optimisation of X-ray exposures
- Requirements of quality assurance systems
- Medico-legal considerations, accurate record keeping and clinical audit
- The use of interventional fluoroscopy
- Radiation exposure: Safety and precautions
- Potential hazards of radiation exposure
- Radiation protection philosophy - Principles
- Justification of fluoroscopy
- Dose reference levels (DRLs)
- Optimisation of patient dose in fluoroscopy
- Methods of reducing dose during fluoroscopy
- Golden rules of fluoroscopy / factors that influence staff dose
- Practical things you can do to reduce your dose
- Collimation
- Know your x-ray equipment
- Radiation protection in fluoroscopy
- Shielding
- Personal protective equipment
- Monitoring
- Practical advice to minimise occupational radiation dose
- Key points for safe practice
