Children are exposed to ionizing radiation (which has potential biologic effects) during intraoperative procedures guided with fluoroscopy. Due to their increased radiosensitivity, it is urgent to raise awareness to the importance of creating and implementing dose reduction strategies for these procedures. To do so, the first step would be to monitor the doses used in the paediatric institutions.

The DAP values obtained at our hospital don’t exceed guidelines recommendations. However they’re heterogeneous between different age groups and procedures. It´s necessary to optimize and uniformize procedures, strengthen and maintain dose reduction measures in intraoperative fluoroscopy, always regarding the ALARA principle.