Dear AuntMinnie Member,
When patients leave your interventional radiology suite, how sure are you that they haven't suffered a radiation-induced skin injury from being under the fluoroscopy x-ray beam too long?
If you're unsure, imagine the uncertainty a patient faces when months later a mysterious lesion appears on his or her back. In some cases, patients and even their referring physicians have no idea that the skin injury is due to fluoroscopy.
Raising awareness of fluoroscopy-induced skin injuries is the goal of a new study we're highlighting this week in our Digital X-Ray Community. The research updates the current state of knowledge on the radiobiology of fluoroscopy-induced skin injury, and revises a set of guidelines that's more than 15 years old on how to recognize and follow up patients.
Learn more by clicking here, or visit the community at xray.auntminnie.com.
Bringing radiology to Honduras
Thousands of AuntMinnie.com members have read our series of articles on how the radiology community stepped up to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Now, we're pleased to bring you another public service story, this time about a group of radiology professionals who have decided to make a difference in Honduras.
Called Shoulder to Shoulder, the group this week is announcing a new effort to bring advanced medical imaging technology to a remote corner of the Central American country. In addition to scanners, the project includes teleradiology links to U.S. academic institutions, giving Hondurans access to some of the best specialists in the U.S.
Learn more by clicking here in an article we're providing in collaboration with radiology publication Imaging Technology News.
