Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2020
Keywords:
Not applicable, Education and training, Radiation safety, CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Management, Radiographers
Authors:
C. Burton, M. May, J. Pereira-Ross, J. Talotta, D. Singleton, W. Reiss, A. Yue, G. Langley-Farrell, A. Leung, P. Rogalla
DOI:
10.26044/esi2020/ESI-03842
Description of activity and work performed
The first steps were to formalize a CT Dose Optimization committee
This would require effective planning and extensive change management to ensure the correct stakeholders and structure was in place.
Our steps to establishing the committee
- Brainstorm, investigate, review and decide on the focused goals and objectives for the committee
- Define the governance and reporting structure that would have a level of accountability to senior team and a reporting requirement to our Quality and Safety committee
- Ensure senior stakeholder engagement and support
- Identifying team members across the CT modality, from the radiologist group, radiation safety office and determine attendance requirements for vendors and other professionals such as biomedical engineering and physicist
- Identify and solidify the scope
- Identify tools required for initial implementation and prepare a strategy for protocol identification
Creating the Goals and Objectives of the committee
- Create and implement a protocol change methodology
- Ensure CT dose consistency across all sites
- Reduce radiation dose to the minimum required while maintaining quality
- Review, evaluate and record all CT protocol changes
- Create an education platform for technologists
- Develop a sustainable framework for clinicians to engage in scanner parameters, activate dose change and give vital image quality feedback.
- Create focused communication standards