Wirksamkeit Additiver Strahlenschutzvorrichtungen Zwecks Reduzierung Der Ionisierenden Streustrahlung im Herzkatheterlabor
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Tommaso Gori
- Enrollment
- 700
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Operator dose
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study evaluates the radiation exposure of scattered radiation for the interventionalist during coronary angiography using different X-ray protection materials, namely, an X-ray Screen without additional X-ray protection, an X-ray Screen with additional protective strips and an X-ray Screen with additional protective strips AND protective patient cut-outs.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •indication for coronary angiography
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Operator dose
Time Frame: Duration of coronary angiography of individuel patient, varies between approximately 5 minutes of radiation (easy access, exclusion coronary heart disease) and app. 3 hours (difficult and complex percutaneous coronary intervention).
Dose of radiation measured
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Tommaso Gori
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory ; Director, Study center of Center for Cardiology, university hospital Mainz
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz