Keywords:
Cardiac, CT-Angiography, Education, Radiation safety, Education and training
Authors:
I. Žuža1, S. Kovacic2, D. Dodig2, E. Bucuk2; 1Kostrena/HR, 2Rijeka/HR
Methods and Materials
Vendor provided education on cardiac imaging was organized in July and September 2015 during 4 days at UHC Rijeka,
Croatia. Inexperienced cardio team (radiologist and radiographer) then spent 5 days during September 2016 in a dedicated training center at UMC Maastricht,
Netherlands.
We retrospectively collected data from patients who underwent coronary CTA for coronary artery disease evaluation at our institution between 18th September 2015 and 6th May 2016.
All the studies were performed on Siemens Dual-source Somatom Definition Flash CT.
Patients were premedicated with nitroglycerin and if needed beta blocker was administered intravenously.
Demographic data,
calcium score,
utilized scanning mode and patient dose (DLP) were collected.
Patients were divided in two groups depending on whether the study was done before or after DCT.
Other cardiac or aortic pathology and cases in which calcium score was deemed too high for continuing the study were excluded.