RADIATION DOSE FOR PATIENTS WITH KAWASAKI DISEASE UNDERGOING FLUOROSCOPICALLY GUIDED CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION.

The goal of the present study was to estimate the radiation dose for a group of 45 Kawasaki disease (KD) patients undergoing fluoroscopically guided cardiac catheterization. The sample of procedures corresponds to a single hospital and was collected in 10 years. Anthropometric characteristics and the quantities of air kerma-area product (PKA) among others were recorded for each procedure.

Organ and effective doses detriment to paediatric patients undergoing multiple interventional cardiology procedures.

The aims of the present study were to present the frequency of multiple interventional cardiac procedures for a certain group of patients obtained at one of the largest paediatric hospitals in Chile. In addition it has been analysed cumulative kerma area product (KAP) and cumulative air kerma (CAK), and calculated organ doses for the patient groups undergoing 2, 3 and ≥ 4 procedures, using Monte Carlo software. Effective doses were also estimated for epidemiological purposes and to permit comparison with other imaging procedures.

The way forward.

Good public-health decisionmaking is dependent on reliable and timely statistics on births and deaths (including the medical causes of death). All high-income countries, without exception, have national civil registration systems that record these events and generate regular, frequent, and timely vital statistics. By contrast, these statistics are not available in many low-income and lower-middle-income countries, even though it is in such settings that premature mortality is most severe and the need for robust evidence to back decisionmaking most critical.