Complications Associated with Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias

Guidelines for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologic Studies (JCS 2011)

“…Radiation exposure to the patient and staff members should be minimized using appropriate X-ray techniques (e.g., narrowing the radiation field, reducing X-ray exposure time, avoiding magnified imaging, and holding the image intensifier close to the patient), appropriate equipment setting (e.g., using pulse radiation, a low image acquisition rate, and non-radiological devices), and appropriate protection measures. 7 …”