Lead Cap Use in Interventional Cardiology: Time to Protect Our Head in the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory?

Lead Cap Use in Interventional Cardiology: Time to Protect Our Head in the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory? Since the evolution of interventional procedures from the first right heart catheterisation in 1929, the use of catheter-based interventions has grown exponentially due to new technologies and an increase in coronary artery disease prevalence.1 The risk of radiation injury in a cardiac catheterisation laboratory has always been a topic of debate. American College of...
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