Credentialing cardiologists who perform therapeutic cardiac interventions

Health effects of medical radiation on cardiologists who perform cardiac catheterization.

BACKGROUND We investigated the health effects of low-dose radiation on cardiologists exposed to scattered radiation while performing cardiac catheterization (CC) in a hospital setting from 2003 to 2006. METHODS We performed a 4-year retrospective study on 2, 292 medical doctors, using claims data from all contracted hospitals of the Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taiwan. We gathered sta...

Health Effects of Medical Radiation on Cardiologists Who Perform Cardiac Catheterization

Medical application of radiation began a few months after the discovery of X-rays by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen more than 100 years ago. The harmful biological effects of ionizing radiation became apparent shortly after its utilization. Since 1920, health professionals in contact with radiation have worn lead protective clothing to reduce the harmful effects of ionizing radiati...

Guidelines for privileging, credentialing, and proctoring to perform GI endoscopy.

Ashley L. Faulx, MD, FASGE, Jenifer R. Lightdale, MD, MPH, FASGE, NASPGHAN representative, Ruben D. Acosta, MD, Deepak Agrawal, MD, MPH, David H. Bruining, MD, Vinay Chandrasekhara, MD, Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, MD, MHS, FASGE, Robert D. Fanelli, MD, FACS, FASGE, SAGES representative, Suryakanth R. Gurudu, MD, FASGE, Loralee Kelsey, BSN, RN, CGRN, SGNA representative, Mouen A. Khashab, MD, Shivangi...

Who should perform thoracoscopy?

Is it possible to train non-cardiologists to perform echocardiography?

It is widely accepted that echocardiography has been one of the most dramatic revolutions in the field of cardiology in the last 100 years. Among the noninvasive diagnostic procedures, the impact of this technique has been as profound as the revolution that occurred when Einthoven introduced the electrocardiogram, another foundation on which clinical diagnosis is based, and to which computed to...