Dosimeter Location in Pain Physicians

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: RAD

Treatments: Device: Standard Practice; Device: Hand Dosimeters

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06309407

STUDY00024903

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective is to determine if there is a significant difference in radiation readings between dosimeters worn on the chest versus the hand of interventional pain management physicians and elucidate which dosimeter had higher readings.

The secondary objective is to track incidences of physician glove breaches in both groups to assess if wearing hand dosimeters is associated with an increased risk of this event.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physicians actively performing fluoroscopy procedures at the Comprehensive Pain Center.

Exclusion criteria

• Those that do not want to participate in the quality improvement project.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Chest and Hand Dosimeters

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will wear both chest and hand dosimeters during all radiation procedures performed at the Comprehensive Pain Center during the study period.

Treatment:

Device: Hand Dosimeters

Chest Dosimeter

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects will wear only a chest dosimeter during all radiation procedures performed at the Comprehensive Pain Center during the study period.

Treatment:

Device: Standard Practice