What a physician without radiological education should know to ensure his or her own radiation safety?

Abstract

The development and increasingly widespread use of high medical technologies associated with sources of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation requires the organization and implementation of appropriate measures for radiation protection and ensuring the safety of patients, personnel and the environment. Conducting relevant medical interventions requires high competence in the field of radiation safety from both radiologists and physicians of other specialties who do not have an education in medical radiology, but by the nature of their work occasionally work in certain fields of ionizing radiation. In such situations, radiation safety of patients is usually ensured by professional radiologists, while ensuring their own radiation safety of a non-radiologist physician largely depends on him or her. The article provides practical recommendations on assessing the radiation levels in such situations and organizing appropriate radiation protection at a level accessible to non-radiologists.