Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Franco Andrés del Pozo

Publications

• Research Article
  Educational Tool Proposals for Perception and Minimization of Occupational Hazards to Protect Health Professionals, the Community and Users of Radiation Therapy and Nuclear Medicine
  Author(s): Franco Andrés del Pozo, Marcos Dantas Moraes Freire, Pollyanna Silva e Silva and Songelí Menezes FreireFranco Andrés del Pozo, Marcos Dantas Moraes Freire, Pollyanna Silva e Silva and Songelí Menezes Freire
  
  Nuclear medicine and radiation therapy offer diagnostic and therapy services. These fields have grown in recent years by expanding coverage for the increasingly earlier treatment of serious diseases. In healthcare institutions, because of the risks, managers must provide continuing education at different levels in bioethics and biosafety according to their radioprotection program, and they must manage the legal exigencies concerning the health followup of the team members and patients. Health professionals work in these environments treating patients with different procedures and radionuclide schemes. The undesirable biological effects, such as stochastic and/or deterministic effects of ionizing radiation, may affect people's quality of life. The morbidity can vary from common problems, such as inflammation, to major unseen problems, such as mutations, with different risks of disease .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9619.1000242

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