Exposure of the Pregnant Patient to Diagnostic Radiations: A Guide to Medical Management - Hardcover

Wagner, Louis K.; Lester, Richard G.; Saldana, Luis R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0944838723 ISBN 13: 9780944838723

Publisher: Medical Physics Pub Corp, 1997

Synopsis

The editors address the anxiety-provoking, but not uncommon, scenario of a woman learning that she is pregnant after diagnostic or therapeutic radiologic exposure, or alternately, requiring X-rays, magnetic resonance, radioisotopes, or ultrasound after she becomes pregnant. Considerations span: the mechanisms for injury by diagnostic radiations, the units and measures of radiation, the amount of radiation absorbed by the conceptus, prenatal risk assessment, clinical management, and case reports (of diseases and traumatic injuries) exemplifying decision recommendations and counseling. Appendixes guide conceptus dose calculations for X-ray exams and radionuclide studies, and list half-lives of 23 radionuclides used in nuclear medicine (5,730 years for Carbon-14). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Synopsis

The editors address the anxiety-provoking, but not uncommon, scenario of a woman learning that she is pregnant after diagnostic or therapeutic radiologic exposure, or alternately, requiring X-rays, magnetic resonance, radioisotopes, or ultrasound after she becomes pregnant. Considerations span: the mechanisms for injury by diagnostic radiations, th

Edition details

• Publisher: Medical Physics Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944838723
• ISBN 13: 9780944838723
• Binding: Hardcover