Table 2.
Fluoroscopy times, dose area products and skin doses for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts procedures in our cohort compared with reference levels from (22)
| Range | Mean±SD | 75th percentile | Median | ||
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| Fluoroscopy time (min:s) | Data set | 04:48–112:40 | 12:09±14:38 | 26:08 | 16:17 |
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| RAD-IR DRL | 60:00 | 31:00 | |||
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| DAP (Gy·cm2) | Data set | 5.1–479.6 | 40.3±73.1 | 75.2 | 38 |
| RAD-IR DRL | 525 | 252 | |||
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| Skin dose (mGy) | Data set | 37–3257 | 404±465 | 488.4 | 257 |
| RAD-IR DRL | 3000 | 1489 | |||
SD, standard deviation; RAD-IR, Radiation Doses in Interventional Radiology Procedures study; DRL, dose reference level; DAP, dose area product.