Project IAEA TC POL9028
“Preventing Tissue Reactions in Interventional Procedures”
(Polish title: „Zapobieganie niepożądanym reakcjom tkanek w procedurach radiologii zabiegowej”)
Project description:
The project is implemented by the National Centre for Radiation Protection in Health Care (NCRPHC) as part of the International Atomic Energy Agency Technical Cooperation Programme for 2024-2025. The objective of the project is awareness of personnel involved in IR by promoting procedures where the patient’s radiological protection is part of good medical practice. Improved awareness on radiological protection will also promote the optimisation of the radiation protection of personnel. Scheduled activities include the following:
- The project will begin in Q1 2024 with a 2-days opening meeting (hybrid type) to which project participants selected by the Polish Medical Radiological Society (PLTR), IAEA experts, representatives of stakeholders, and partnership institutions will be invited. The meeting will cover presentation of problems related to radiological protection of patients and staff during interventional procedures, approval of the final list of project participants (one for a region basis), as well as adoption of the project implementation schedule (meetings, trainings, visits, purchases). The planned purchases and available staff resources of the IR departments involved will also be discussed. The list of tasks entrusted to project participants will be generated. The lectures given by IAEA experts will be recorded and will make available online for public. During the meeting the team will be selected that will prepare a national survey on the occurrence of deterministic effects resulting from the interventional procedures.
- Workshops (on-line) are planned to cover the following topics:
1. medical exposure vs. occupational exposure,
2. deterministic effects (incl. results of the national survey),
3. modern radiological equipment and AI in interventional radiology,
4. ethical aspects of patients’ exposures and risk communication.
The main goal of the workshops is to strengthen the awareness of the staff to the whole process of implementation of ionising radiation in IR. The lectures given by the IAEA experts will be pre-recorded and uploaded to internet for public access.
- Series of trainings of IR specialists are planned. The first one will be provided for local persons who will be trained by IAEA trainers to be future local leaders in IR trainings on optimisation of radiation protection focused on avoiding/limiting the occurrence of deterministic effects. Two study visits are planned for professionals involved in intervention procedures to world-leading centres that perform complex interventional procedures, in which deterministic effects may be expected. One study visit is planned to leading university/hospital involved in radiation protection of patients.
- The purchases of IR virtual training simulator including the radiation protection module (radiation field visualisation in Augmented Reality) and mobile real-time personal dosimetry system are planned. To launch the Simulation Centre at NCRPHC for learning and training in the interventional procedures with awareness to the ionising radiation generated during X-ray guided procedures is planned.
- National survey on the occurrence of deterministic effects resulting from the interventional procedures. The survey will be distributed to all facilities performing interventional radiology procedures in Poland and the results of the survey will be discussed during the meeting in Q4 2024.
- To follow the international solutions in radiation protection in IR, it is planned to support participation in events organized or co-organized by the IAEA, as well as congresses and conferences focused on interventional radiology including radiation protection.
Contact: pol9028@nullkcor.gov.pl
The first meeting to open the project implementation is scheduled for March 2024 – information coming soon! Up-to-date information about the events will be regularly posted on the NCRPHC website and sent on an ongoing basis via the newsletter (to subscribers).
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