Radiation safety education and compliance with safety procedures—The Korea Nurses’ Health Study

Kim, Oksoo; Kim, Mi Sun; Jang, Hee Jung; Lee, Hyangkyu; Kang, Younhee; Pang, Yan; Jung, Heeja

doi:10.1111/jocn.14338

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“…The literature also emphasizes that nurses are not given adequate radiation safety training, and their level of knowledge often remains poorer than that of physicians and radiologic technologists (10,20). Similarly, we found a significant part of the participants did not receive radiation safety training during their education or professional life, and the majority of those receiving such training was not satisfied with the training.…”

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“…In their study, Kim et al (10) showed that nurses over 40 comply more with radiation safety precautions. Partly different from the literature, our data demonstrated that young nurses had more radiation and radiation safety knowledge than experienced nurses.…”

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“…In the literature, a significant number of nurses do not know how to protect themselves from ionizing radiation during their professional life. Besides, most nurses consider their previous education on radiation protection to be insufficient and are willing to receive more comprehensive education on this subject (10,11).…”

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Exploring radiation safety knowledge among nurses

Ucan

Çınar

2022

Anatolian Current Medical Journal

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Aim: As part of the medical team, nurses often take part in both controlled and supervised radiation fields. For this reason, nurses need to know about radiation and radiation safety. This study is aimed to determine the knowledge level of nurses in a tertiary pediatric hospital about radiation safety through a questionnaire.Material and Method: Within the scope of the survey conducted, the age, gender and years of experience data of the participants were collected. In addition, they have been asked whether they have received radiation safety training throughout their professional life and whether they want to receive such training now. Basic questions about radiation safety and questions to measure the general level of information about radiation are also addressed. Results:The link of the survey was delivered to 583 nurses in the study center and 313 nurses completed the questionnaire. 53.67% of the nurses stated that they do not know the name of the beam used for x-ray imaging. 64.28% of the nurses stated that they did not receive such education in their professional life. 78.57% of all participants stated that they wanted to receive a training how to protect themselves while X-ray is being performed in their environment. Conclusion:A significant number of nurses do not receive radiation safety training. Those who received such an education state that they are not satisfied with the training. Nurses want to receive radiation safety training. Trainings with regular and appropriate content can increase nurses' radiation safety knowledge and awareness.

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Exploring radiation safety knowledge among nurses

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2022

Anatolian Current Medical Journal

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“…However, it has been observed that the instruction on radiological protection is incipient among the professionals who work in interventional radiology, resulting in the adoption of erroneous methods regarding the safe use of ionizing radiation in medical practice. 8 Additionally, there is also a low adherence of workers to the use of radiological protection garments, besides the lack of knowledge on the biological effects of ionizing radiation. 9 , 10 …”

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The practice of radiation protection in an interventional neuroradiology service

Palencia-Sánchez¹,

Riaño-Casallas²

2022

Rev Bras Med Trab

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Introduction Interventional neuroradiology procedures subject professionals who work in this area to high doses of ionizing radiation, and such exposure leads to a higher chance of occupational diseases related to this physical risk. Radiation protection practices aim to reduce the occurrence of such damage to the health of these workers. Objectives To identify how the practice of radiation protection occurs in a multidisciplinary team of an interventional neuroradiology service in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Methods A qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive research conducted with nine health professionals from the multidisciplinary team. Non-participant observation and a survey form were used as data collection techniques. For data analysis, descriptive analysis based on absolute and relative frequency and content analysis were used. Results Although some practices showed the use of radiation protection measures in practice, such as workers taking turns to perform procedures and continuous use of the lead apron as well as the mobile suspended protection, we found that most of the practices violate the principles of radiation protection. Among these inadequate radiological protection practices, the following aspects were observed: not wearing lead goggles, not using collimation to obtain the image, poor knowledge of the principles of radiation protection and biological effects of ionizing radiation, and non-use of an individual dosimeter. Conclusions There was a lack of know-how of the multidisciplinary team working in interventional neuroradiology regarding the practice of radiation protection.

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“…Ionizing radiation composed of various wave lengths including Gamma (γ)-rays and X-rays and released in a form of energy released from atoms. Worldwide the exposure of radiation exposure for different use including medical diagnostic, nuclear medicine procedure and radiotherapies were increasing [1] . Exposure of radiation either from direct and indirect source penetrate living cells or tissue which induce and prompt oxidative stress due to overproduction of several free radicals and disturbed cellular biomolecules.…”

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Hepatorenal Biomacromolecules Modification by Gallic Acid Ethyl Ester in the Gamma-Irradiated Murine Model

Pandey¹,

Ahmed²,

Prasad³

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IJPS

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The exposure of ionizing radiation involve a highly orchestrated series of events that induced amplified by endogenous signaling and culminating in oxidative damage to deoxyribonucleic acid, lipids, proteins and many metabolites. Gallic acid ethyl ester is a major bioactive constituent of Hippophae rhamnoides L. leaves and extract prepared from it exhibited radio protective and pharmacological activity. Radio modifying properties of polyphenol compounds through free radical neutralizing have been reported earlier. The study aims to investigate the in silico and gamma-radio modifying action, oxidative stress estimation, histopathological and Immunohistopathological analysis of gallic acid ethyl ester at a radio protective dose and changes, if any, induced post irradiation. Male C 57 BL/6 mice (28 g-30 g) were administered Gallic acid ethyl ester (250 mg/kg b.w) orally 15 min prior to irradiation. Mice were sacrificed at different time points, plasma and tissues were studied for oxidative stress and pathological analysis. The gamma-radio modifying potential was assessed in terms of mitigating cyclooxygenase-2 expression and oxidative stress parameters levels in liver and kidney post irradiation. Our study suggested the potential use of gallic acid ethyl ester as gamma-radio modifying agent inhibits cyclooxygenase-2 expression and maintains the lipid peroxidation, superoxide, glutathione and alkaline phosphatase activity up to 8 h in comparison to irradiated mice. Moreover, in histopathological analysis, it showed that gallic acid ethyl ester protect and maintain the cellular architect in liver and kidney from the toxic effect of ionizing radiation. These in silico, pre-clinical biomolecules and histopathology result may be useful for study of the bioactive mechanism associated with radiation injury and to develop a potent formulation of gallic acid ethyl ester for clinical application against gamma-radiation.

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Radiation safety education and compliance with safety procedures—The Korea Nurses’ Health Study

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

Exploring radiation safety knowledge among nurses

Exploring radiation safety knowledge among nurses

The practice of radiation protection in an interventional neuroradiology service

Hepatorenal Biomacromolecules Modification by Gallic Acid Ethyl Ester in the Gamma-Irradiated Murine Model

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