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Research ArticleNeurointervention

The Efficacy of Shielding Systems for Reducing Operator Exposure during Neurointerventional Procedures: A Real-World Prospective Study

T.R. Miller, J. Zhuo, G. Jindal, R. Shivashankar, N. Beaty and D. Gandhi
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2017, 38 (3) 450-454; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5038
T.R. Miller
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J. Zhuo
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G. Jindal
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R. Shivashankar
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Neurointerventional surgery may expose patients and physician operators to substantial amounts of ionizing radiation. Although strategies for reducing patient exposure have been explored in the medical literature, there has been relatively little published in regards to decreasing operator exposure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of shielding systems in reducing physician exposure in a modern neurointerventional practice.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Informed consent was obtained from operators for this Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act–compliant, institutional review board–approved study. Operator radiation exposure was prospectively measured during 60 consecutive neurointerventional procedures from October to November 2013 using a 3-part lead shielding system. Exposure was then evaluated without lead shielding in a second 60-procedure block from April to May 2014. A radiation protection drape was randomly selected for use in half of the cases in each block. Two-way analysis of covariance was performed to test the effect of shielding systems on operator exposure while controlling for other covariates, including procedure dose-area product.

RESULTS: Mean operator procedure dose was 20.6 μSv for the entire cohort and 17.7 μSv when using some type of shielding. Operator exposure significantly correlated with procedure dose-area product, but not with other covariates. After we adjusted for procedure dose-area product, the use of lead shielding or a radiation protection drape significantly reduced operator exposure by 45% (F = 12.54, P < .0001) and 29% (F = 7.02, P = .009), respectively. The difference in protection afforded by these systems was not statistically significant (P = .46), and their adjunctive use did not provide additional protection.

CONCLUSIONS: Extensive lead shielding should be used as much as possible in neurointerventional surgery to reduce operator radiation exposure to acceptable levels. A radiation protection drape is a reasonable alternative when standard lead shielding is unavailable or impractical to use without neglecting strategies to minimize the dose.

ABBREVIATIONS:

BMI
body mass index
PKA
air kerma area product

Advances in endovascular technology have led to the increasing use of minimally invasive, neurointerventional procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease. While the efficacy of these fluoroscopically guided examinations is well-established, there is growing concern regarding the exposure of patients and medical personnel to ionizing radiation. Prior reports have demonstrated that exposure of patients and workers may not be negligible during interventional neuroradiology procedures, likely due to the complexity of some interventions and the use of digital subtraction angiography and biplane fluoroscopy.1⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–7 Patient exposure may be high enough to result in deterministic effects such as skin erythema and epilation, while both patients and physician operators are potentially at risk from the stochastic effects of this radiation, namely carcinogenesis.8⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–16

Although multiple reports in the literature detail the risks of patient exposure to ionizing radiation during neurointerventional procedures, little has been published regarding exposure of the treating physician operators. Furthermore, the few reports available have either included a relatively small number of cases performed by a few experienced neurointerventionalists or, alternatively, have focused on quantifying the degree of protection afforded by personal protective equipment, such as lead glasses or caps.1⇓⇓–4,17,18 While the use of such equipment remains an essential component of an overall strategy to protect medical personnel from scatter radiation, an equally important approach is to reduce the amount of scatter radiation reaching the physician operator. The latter may be achieved by minimizing the use of ionizing radiation in neurointerventions as much as clinically feasible and by the adjunctive deployment of shielding systems in the angiosuite. Strategies for minimizing radiation use in neurointerventional surgery have recently been described in detail by several groups and include the use of low-dose fluoroscope settings.19⇓⇓–22 However, the efficacy of shielding systems in neurointerventional surgery has largely remained unstudied.

We therefore elected to prospectively evaluate operator exposure to scatter ionizing radiation in our neurointerventional practice while using various shielding systems.

Materials and Methods

The institutional review board approved the research protocol for this single-center, HIPAA-compliant study. Operator radiation exposure was prospectively measured during 2 blocks of 60 consecutive neuroangiography procedures performed in roughly 6-week periods from October to November 2013 and April to May 2014. Physician operators participating in the study included attending neurointerventional radiologists (n = 3) and physician trainees specializing in the field (n = 2). All physician operators wore standard personal protective equipment during the study, including a lead vest and skirt and a thyroid shield. Written and verbal informed consent was obtained from physician operators. Patient consent was not obtained because their clinical care and radiation dose were unaffected by the research protocol.

During each 60-procedure block, operator exposure was measured during all neuroangiography procedures performed on an Artis zee biplane fluoroscopy unit (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany), consisting of two 40 × 30 cm flat panel image detectors in the anteroposterior and lateral planes. Along with operator radiation dose, fluoroscopy time, air kerma area product (PKA), procedure type (diagnostic versus intervention/treatment), and patient body mass index (BMI) were recorded for all procedures. Operator skin dose was measured by a personal electronic dosimeter (DMC 300; Mirion Technologies, Irvine California), which measures Hp(10), with a measurement range of 15 keV to 7 MeV for x-rays and gamma rays, a dose range from 1 μSv to 10 Sv, and an accuracy of at least ±20% (typical, ±10%). Body mass index was obtained from the patient's medical record. The specific type of intervention was not recorded (eg, aneurysm coiling, mechanical thrombectomy) because it was thought that other factors, including vessel tortuosity, plaque burden, and lesion morphology, would also play a critical role in determining overall procedure complexity. Consequently, our study design accounted for procedure complexity by taking into account the overall amount of ionizing radiation used during the procedure, as reflected by the PKA.

During the first 60 consecutive procedures, the personal dosimeter was attached to the left collar of the primary operator on top of the individual's lead vest and thyroid shield. If >1 physician participated in the procedure, the dosimeter was transferred between operators to ensure that it was always located on the primary operator standing closest to the fluoroscope. The dosimeter was left in the angiosuite on the patient's upper right thigh during all power-injected DSA runs while physician operators stood in the control room to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure. This procedure was used to standardize the relationship between measured operator exposure and the PKA. The dosimeter remained on the primary operator's left collar during all hand-injected DSA runs.

Standard radiation lead shielding was used in all cases, including an overhanging lead acrylic shield positioned over the patient's midabdomen (upper body shield), a lead apron skirt extending parallel to the fluoroscopy table on the side of the operator (lower body shield), and an approximately 2 × 1 m mobile barrier placed in front of the primary operator perpendicular to the angiography table. In addition, a disposable radiation-absorbing surgical drape (RADPAD; Worldwide Innovations & Technologies, Lenexa, Kansas), which has proved efficacious in reducing physician exposure during interventional cardiology and vascular interventional radiology procedures, was randomly selected to be used in half of cases.23⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–31 If selected for use, the radiation protection drape was initially placed on the patient's right thigh below the femoral sheath insertion site and was subsequently transferred to the right lower abdomen once the catheter had been advanced into the thoracic aorta (Fig 1).

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Fig 1.

Configuration of shielding systems and dosimeter in the angiosuite. A, Positions of the mobile barrier (X), upper body shield (Y), and lower body shield (Z) are noted. B, Position of the radiation protection drape (white arrows) before sheath insertion and advancement of the diagnostic/intermediate catheter into the thoracic aorta. C, Position of the radiation protection drape (white arrows) during the remainder of the procedure. D, Position of the dosimeter (white X) in the second block of 60 patients, attached to an IV pole. The radiation protection drape is positioned over the left side of the patient.

In the second half of the study, radiation exposure was again measured during 60 additional consecutive neuroangiography procedures performed in the same biplane angiosuite. However, in this portion of the study, the electronic dosimeter was placed at the collar level on an IV pole located on the opposite side of the angiosuite table immediately across from the primary operator and standard lead shielding. This step was to simulate operator exposure when lead shielding is not used because it was thought unethical to remove lead shielding from the side of the operator. Once again, a radiation protection drape was randomly selected for use in half of cases, this time positioned over the left lower abdomen. The dosimeter remained in the angiosuite throughout the procedure, including during power-injected DSA runs.

Operator radiation exposure was then analyzed according to the presence or absence of lead shielding and the radiation protection drape, yielding 4 groups (Table 1). One-way ANOVA was initially performed to test whether there were any group differences in procedure PKA, fluoroscopy time, and patient BMI. The Pearson correlation was used to analyze the simple relationship between operator radiation exposure and procedure PKA, fluoroscopy time, and patient BMI. Two-way analysis of covariance was performed to test the effect of lead shielding and the radiation protection drape on operator exposure, controlling for ≥1 of the other covariates (PKA, fluoroscopy time, patient BMI). Covariates were selected on the basis of whether they were significant explanatory variables in the multiple linear regression model with exposure dose as the response. A post hoc test with a Tukey correction was then performed to test for group differences in exposure dose, while controlling for the covariates. All statistical analysis was performed by using the computing environment R statistical and computing software (Version 3.2.0) (http://www.r-project.org). P < .05 was considered statistically significant.

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Table 1:

Shielding system groups

Results

Data were successfully collected from all eligible neurointerventional examinations in 2 blocks of 60 consecutive procedures. In total, 71 diagnostic and 49 interventional neuroangiography procedures were included. During the initial investigation of operator radiation exposure data, 1 diagnostic procedure was excluded from further analysis due to a reported high operator exposure dose, which was out of proportion to the procedure PKA. This outlier may have occurred due to either improper dosimeter positioning or erroneous data entry. Consequently, data from 70 diagnostic and 49 therapeutic neurointerventional angiography procedures were included for further analysis (Table 2).

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Baseline group characteristics

Mean operator radiation dose per procedure in the entire cohort was 20.6 ± 1.6 μSv and 17.7 ± 1.4 μSv for the 89 procedures in which exposure was measured by using some type of shielding system. The mean fluoroscopy time and PKA for the entire cohort were 44.6 ± 47.3 minutes and 149.3 ± 90.1 Gy × cm2, respectively. Compared with therapeutic interventions, diagnostic examinations were associated with shorter fluoroscopy times (17.5 ± 1.4 minutes versus 83.3 ± 51.0 minutes, P < .0001) and lower PKA (132 ± 88 Gy × cm2 versus 174 ± 88 Gy × cm2, P = .014). The mean patient body mass index was 28.2 (range, 15.2–50.1).

One-way ANOVA testing demonstrated no statistically significant differences in the ratio of diagnostic-versus-interventional procedures (F = 0.86, P = .47), mean fluoroscopy time (F = 0.433, P = .73), mean PKA (F = 0.53, P = .67), or mean patient BMI (ANOVA, F = 2.36, P = .08) among the 4 shielding groups. Two-way analysis of the covariance showed that operator radiation exposure was highly correlated with procedure PKA, regardless of the shielding systems used (r = 0.59, P < .0001). Although fluoroscopy time (r = 0.29, P = .0013) and patient BMI (r = −0.17, P = .062) also correlated with operator radiation exposure, these covariates were no longer significant after taking PKA into account. Consequently, only PKA was included as a covariate in the final ANCOVA model for the effects of shielding systems on operator exposure dose.

ANCOVA revealed that the use of lead shielding (F = 12.54, P < .0001) and the radiation protection drape (F = 7.02, P = .009) significantly reduced operator exposure after adjusting for procedure PKA (Table 3). Post hoc tests comparing the adjusted operator exposure dose for the 4 shielding groups indicated that standard lead shielding (R0L1) reduced operator exposure to scatter radiation by nearly half (45%) compared with no shielding (R0L0) (P < .001). Use of the RADPAD drape (R1L0) was also associated with a significant but smaller reduction in operator exposure (29%) (P = .026). Finally, the concomitant use of the 2 shielding systems together (R1L1) failed to further reduce operator exposure to scatter radiation. The R1L1 group demonstrated a 44% reduction in operator exposure compared with no shielding (R0L0), essentially identical to standard lead shielding alone (R1L1 versus R0L1, P = .99).

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Operator dose and adjusted dose reduction relative to R0L0

Discussion

Our results demonstrate that the consistent use of standard lead shielding can reduce the exposure of neurointerventionalists to scatter radiation by as much as 45%. More surprising is the 29% reduction in exposure afforded by the radiation protection drape. Although the drape had previously been shown to be effective in interventional cardiology and vascular interventional radiology procedures, physicians in these specialties often stand much closer to the irradiated portion of the patient's body, for example, next to the thorax during cardiac pacemaker/defibrillator placement. In these instances, the drape is placed directly adjacent to the irradiated body part, where it is in an optimal position to shield the operator from scatter radiation. In contradistinction, neurointerventionalists using femoral artery access typically stand much farther away from the x-ray target (ie, head and neck), and it was uncertain whether placing the drape over the patient's lower abdomen would still be effective. However, despite the greater distance between operator and x-ray source, the drape still significantly reduced operator exposure.

The current study failed to show a further reduction in operator dose when augmenting lead shielding with the radiation protection drape. However, we still use the inexpensive, easy-to-use drape in our practice because we believe it may provide additional radiation protection in certain situations. These include procedures requiring greater radiation exposure of the pelvis (eg, difficult femoral artery access, femoral artery injury), spinal angiography, and studies using brachial or radial artery access. Although not evaluated in the current study, the drape may be more effective in these instances due to a combination of increased proximity of the operator to the irradiated body part and an inability to optimally position all lead shielding components. For example, the overhanging lead shield is impractical to use during femoral sheath insertion, while the stand-alone lead shield is similarly unworkable when using a brachial artery approach.

Furthermore, although we consistently use extensive lead shielding in our practice, this is likely not the case for all neurointerventionalists. Overhanging and stand-alone lead shielding can be cumbersome to use, particularly during complex interventions such as aneurysm coiling, which often require oblique positioning of the fluoroscopy tubes. In these instances, the working space available for lead shields is often reduced, making them difficult or impractical to use. Moreover, some practices may be limited in their use of lead shielding, either because it is not readily available or due to physical constraints within the angiography suite. In situations in which lead shielding is not ideal, either due to operator preference or limitations of a particular practice, a radiation protection drape may be a reasonable alternative for scatter radiation protection.

Operator exposure was highly correlated with PKA. As discussed in the “Materials and Methods” section, procedure PKA is a reasonable measure of overall procedure complexity, potentially accounting for a diverse array of difficult-to-anticipate variables, including intervention type, experience of the operators, vessel tortuosity, and vessel plaque burden. After we accounted for this correlation, neither procedure type nor patient BMI significantly impacted operator dose. Before the current study, we had speculated that patient BMI might impact operator exposure secondary to increased scatter radiation production while imaging over the superiormost aspect of the thorax and lower neck. The latter occurs during catheterization of cervical vessels and can represent a significant percentage of procedure time in diagnostic cerebral angiograms, particularly with tortuous vessel anatomy. However, any increase in scatter radiation generated by larger size patients was too small to be detected.

Operator exposure was modest in the current study: 20.6 μSv per procedure for the entire cohort and 17.7 μSv when using some types of shielding. Given these results, it is highly unlikely that an operator in our practice would exceed the annual occupational limit of 20 mSv. Although comparison with prior studies can be challenging due to differences in methodology, other authors have typically noted higher operator doses during neurointerventional procedures. For example, Moritake et al5 reported an average entrance dose at the operator's left collar of 50 μGy/μSv (n = 32), Kemerink et al2 found an average entry dose at the operator's neck of 74 μGy/μSv (n = 31), and Bor et al18 noted a mean entry dose of 28.8 μGy/μSv in the region of the thyroid (n = 57). We believe that the meticulous use of shielding systems in most of our cases contributed to the relatively low operator exposure, though other factors, including fluoroscope settings, likely played a role.

The current study has several limitations, which reflect some of the practical challenges of measuring operator radiation exposure during everyday clinical practice. First, our measured operator dose likely overestimates true physician exposure during clinical practice secondary to leaving the dosimeter in the angiosuite during power-injected DSA runs. However, this practice allowed us to standardize the relationship between measured operator exposure and procedure PKA. In addition, estimated operator exposure in the second half of the study may have been slightly greater than in the first half due to the dosimeter being located on the side of the lateral fluoroscope x-ray source. This feature, in turn, may have led to a mild overestimation of the efficacy of lead shielding. However, the difference was thought likely to be small because the lateral tube is almost exclusively used when imaging over the head and upper neck, where the greater distance of the operator/dosimeter from the irradiated body part would likely minimize any such variation. Finally, small variations in positioning of the dosimeter during the first half of the study, when operators wore the dosimeter, may have also affected our results. However, it was not practical to attach the dosimeter to a fixed position such as an IV pole on the right side of the angiosuite table because it would have interfered with the work of physician operators. Despite these issues, our results help to quantify the degree of protection afforded by shielding systems in neurointerventional surgery and have demonstrated that such systems may help limit physician exposure to acceptable levels in a modern neurointerventional practice.

Conclusions

Extensive lead shielding should be used as much as possible in neurointerventional surgery to reduce operator radiation exposure to acceptable levels. A radiation protection drape is a reasonable alternative when standard lead shielding is unavailable or impractical to use without neglecting strategies to minimize the dose.

Footnotes

  • Disclosures: Timothy R. Miller—UNRELATED: Grants/Grants Pending: University of Maryland, Comments: Medtronic industry grant for already published research pertaining to comparison of the classic-versus-second-generation Flex Pipeline Embolization Device paid to University of Maryland Medical Center Radiology Department; Stryker industry grant for the Trevo Retriever Registry Post Market Surveillance paid to the University of Maryland Medical Center Radiology Department; Medtronic industry grant for Apollo, Onyx, Delivery Micro Catheter Post Market Safety Study paid to the University of Maryland Medical Center Radiology Department; Pending: MicroVention industry grant for the Pivotal Study of the FRED Stent System in the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms paid to the University of Maryland Medical Center Radiology Department.* Gaurav Jindal—UNRELATED: Grants/Grants Pending: Stryker, MicroVention, Codman, Medtronic, Comments: research grants*; Payment for Lectures including Service on Speakers Bureaus: Internal Medicine Department at the Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Dheeraj Gandhi—UNRELATED: Royalties: Cambridge Press. *Money paid to the institution.

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American Journal of Neuroradiology Mar 2017, 38 (3) 450-454; DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A5038

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