injuries in Interventional Fluoroscopy, health and medicine homework help

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I need to write a paper on how to prevent injuries during Interventional Fluoroscopy procedures. I this includes the patient, doctor and x-ray tech. I need to make it 4 pages in APA with refernencs and I do not know which direction to write this.

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Running head: INTERVENTIONAL FLUOROSCOPY

Interventional Fluoroscopy
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INTERVENTIONAL FLUOROSCOPY

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Introduction
Fluoroscopy entails the medical imaging of patients through a monitor. Electronic beams
like X-ray beams are passed through several body parts and they are viewed through a monitor.
This kind of intervention is commonly used when identifying internal organisms of patients that
could be fractured, broken or could be having general health problems. Although this
intervention is medical, there are several injuries that could result from carrying out fluoroscopy
interventions. It is therefore very important to take precautions that help in preventing injuries
and achieving sustainable health care. These precautions can be taken by the patients, the doctors
as well as the X-ray technicians who carry out the intervention.
Injuries Associated with Fluoroscopy Intervention
There are several injuries that can result from the fluoroscopy intervention. The
intervention is basically an electronic form of intervention and it involves radiation. As it is,
radiation involves exposure to heat and high radioactive elements. The fluoroscopy intervention
has been mainly associated with skin diseases among patients. These skin diseases differ from
patient to patient depending on the level of exposure to the radioactive elements (Trianni,
Gasparini, and Padovani, , 2009).
Some of the injuries associated with this intervention include burns on the skin of
patients. The fluoroscopy radiation involves the passing on an X-ray beam of the skin surface of
the patient. This basically means that...


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