Guideline · Position statement or standards
Italian inter-society expert panel position on radiological exposure in Neonatal Intensive Care Units.
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- Comfort and nursing care
- Communicating with families
- Developmental care and positioning
- Families and professional practice
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- Nursing
- Quality improvement
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Summary
Position document from an Italian inter-society expert panel (radiologists, paediatricians, medical physicists) on justification and optimisation of radiological exposures, mainly chest and abdominal radiographs in incubators, in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. It covers clinical indications, good practice, equipment and exposure parameters, positioning and immobilisation, diagnostic reference levels, and radiation protection for infants and staff. It also evaluates incubators for their effect on dose and addresses communicating radiation risk to parents. CT and fluoroscopy are excluded.
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