Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2019
Keywords:
Action 10 - EuroSafe Imaging Stars, Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material, Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Radiation physics, CT, Digital radiography, Fluoroscopy, Diagnostic procedure, Education and training
Authors:
J. Monteiro Goulart, R. A. Lucena, A. Bacelar, A. L. Pinto
DOI:
10.26044/esi2019/ESI-0010
Background/introduction
Justification and optimization are fundamental principles of radiation protection used for medical purposes.
The medical justification is extremely relevant to the radiologist and states that no practice or source attached to a practice should be authorized unless it produces sufficient benefit to the exposed individual or to society in order to compensate for the detriment that may be caused [1,
2].
The prescription of procedures with ionizing radiation requires a medical justification based on the risk-benefit relationship for the patient.
According to Ministerial Order No.
453/98 of the Ministry of Health (Brazil),
the justification is the basic principle of radiological protection and must be performed by the assistant physician with the provision of individualized clinical information for each patient.
The proper filled imaging requisitions which provides an important clinical information for the acquisition and interpretation of radiographic studies,
should be the main way of communication between assistant physicians and radiologists.
[3–6]
The objective of this study is to analyze the quality of the clinical information provided in the imaging requisitions of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) and to enable the requesting physicians to justify with the most detailed information available related to the patient's pathology,
to avoid excess of unnecessary and complementary radiological exposures.