Today, nearly 62 million CT scans are performed nationwide every year, up from 3 million in 1980. Medical exposure to radiation, mainly through CT scans, has replaced environmental radon as the dominant source of radiation exposure for the U.S. population. Virtually anyone who enters the emergency room with pain in the belly or a chronic headache will automatically get a CT scan. As many as 5 million scans are now done in children, who are 10 times more sensitive to radiation than adults.
With the number of CT scans, MRIs and mammography screening continuing to increase, the time is now to consider NDMA Radiation Exposure services.
Do you know the percentage of your patients that are being over exposed to radiation?
NDMA does….
