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ArticleJournal of orthopaedics

A standard universal C-arm language: Assessing its need and its likelihood of acceptance.

Jacob B Stirton, Alexander D Savage, Elliot M Pally, Hans J Kreder, Megan Mooney

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Article in Journal of orthopaedics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jacob B StirtonUniversity of Kentucky, Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA.
Alexander D SavageMount Carmel, Department of Orthopedics, Columbus, OH, USA.
Elliot M PallyUniversity of Saskatchewan, Department of Surgery - Division of Orthopedics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Hans J KrederUniversity of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, USA.
Megan MooneyUniversity of Toledo Medical Center, Department of Orthopedics, Toledo, OH, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intraoperative fluoroscopy has facilitated improvements in surgical procedures across various subspecialties but has resulted in increased radiation exposure to the patient and surgeon. The results of a survey administered to 447 orthopedic surgeons and radiological technologists show that there is no standard universal c-arm language, that significant confusion and miscommunication exists between surgeons and technologists because of this, that unnecessary radiation exposure occurs as a direct consequence of this miscommunication, and that the vast majority of respondents would accept a standardized language similar to the one proposed in this study. This could potentially lead to less miscommunication and radiation exposure.

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c-ArmCommunicationLanguageOrthopedicRadiation

Identifiers

PMID30662240
PMCPMC6324758

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