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Dosage. Patients generally only get one x-ray every few years on average so being exposed is fine. The x-ray tech takes dozens every day so if they were exposed every time they would exceed safe dosage very quickly.
Also, they give you a lead garment to protect the areas that aren't being x-rayed. So the technicians are taking appropriate safety precautions for you as well as themselves.
Even without that precaution you get more radiation exposure from a long plane ride than from a single x-ray (less atmosphere above you = less shielding from cosmic radiation).
Employed X-ray tech here, this is mostly accurate, but most relevant academic bodies, in the US at least, actually recommend not shielding patients anymore, since it usually leads to slightly higher doses depending on the particular exam.
Collimation of the beam is sufficient to reduce dose with modern equipment.
That being said, when the patient is being X-rayed, such as in surgery, the primary source of radiation for everyone else is the patient. Since that cannot be collimated, lead aprons should be worn, and should be facing the source of radiation (i.e., don't turn your back when the beam is on, or wear a full wrap lead apron). Even that being said, the amount of radiation is low for almost everything except CT scans and IR (heart cath/embolization etc) cases.
They mean the lead garment the patient wears to avoid xrwy to vital areas
As a patient I have worn them, do they not have them where you go?
They aren't even in the same room. They have a special walled booth. They've given me a vest when having my arm up out on a table. Seems somebody needs better equipment or better training
But who you originally responded to wasn't talking about the fluoroscope. They meant in general, that's why I said they meant the vest the patient wears. Also during my fluoroscope I was bare obviously but the doctors had aprons for obvious reasons.
Reading online its only more modern equipment that has good colluminarion adjustments, older equipment is still suggesting using patient protection, per the original comment
Its 100% common here in Canada
It totally is. Even when I got tooth xrays 2 years ago where the machine is right against your jaw and film plate is in mouth they still put the lead vest over me.
I think you dont know and are doing by chatgpt results. Few xrays. Lol. I had several surgeries that required xrays as well as tumors, and my kids had broken bone xrays, and dental. It's always the vest or apron. I'm not claiming it is necessary, I'm telling you what they do here, and why a person was asking about vests
Uh I have lived experience, my wife works at a hospital and sees it. You are the one that is claiming something that isn't true here.
Lol get lost troll. You made a statement that didn't reflect what happens here when somebody asked about patients wearing vests. You are pushing for doctors of a fluoroscope but that's not all xrays. And current practise here is lead shielding.
You can take the redditor out of reddit, but you can't take reddit out of the redditor.
Meh, guy may be a radiologist even, but its not how our system operates.
You misunderstand. You have more credibility than the other person in the area of radiology. But you're also 20 replies deep into an argument where it's obvious that neither of you will give any ground, fighting over mostly semantics at this point. That's redditor behaviour.
Funny thing: on Friday I had my dental checkup. They did the xrays, and placed a lead vest from neck to thigh on me. Lol. I should have asked for a photo
It depends on the xray and positions etc. I've had it with the lead apron and not