Resources

Radiation Safety Foundations toolkit
Core principles, occupational risk, and ALARA+ framework for the entire cath lab team

ERPD Implementation toolkit
Practical guidance for evaluating, justifying, and adopting enhanced radiation protection devices

Economic & Business Case toolkit
Radiation protection as a risk management, workforce safety, and institutional liability issue

Advocacy & Policy toolkit
Resources for engaging hospital leadership, federal decisionmakers and state regulators to modernize radiation safety standards

Resources from JSCAI

Radiation Safety Renaissance: Will State Regulations Help or Hinder an Emergence From the Dark Ages? - Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions

Survey Confirms Radiation and Orthopedic Health Hazards inCardiac Catheterization Laboratories are ‘Unacceptable’ | SCAI

ALARA+: Summit on Radiation and Orthopedic Risks in Fluoroscopic Laboratories - Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions

Radiation safety resources from our members

SCAI: Radiation and Occupational Safety Resource Center

ORSIF: Economic Impact Study

ORSIF: Protecting Healthcare Workers from Radiation & Musculoskeletal Hazards

Women As One: Radiation Safety in the Practice of Cardiology

SIR: Occupational Protection in Interventional Radiology-A Joint Guideline

Sources

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²Abudayyeh, Islam, Allison G. Dupont, James B. Hermiller, Justine Mascarenhas, Poonam Velagapudi, Nkechinyere N. Ijioma, Peter L. Duffy, et al. “Occupational Health Hazards inthe Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Results of the 2023 SCAI Survey.” Journalof the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions 4, no. 4 (April 2025): 102493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jscai.2024.102493.

³Bolon, Paul, Anusha Rizvi, Michael Seymour, and Christine Welniak. Economic Impacts of RadiationExposures Associated with Interventional Fluoroscopy, December 2018.

⁴Vora, Amit N., James B. Hermiller, Rahul Gupta, Andrew M. Goldsweig, Georges Ephrem, Karim Al-Azizi, Binita Shah, et al. “Variability in State-Level Regulations Regarding Occupational Radiation Exposure.” Journal of the Society for CardiovascularAngiography & Interventions 4, no. 6 (June 2025): 103597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jscai.2025.103597.

⁵"Regulatory Issues." Home. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://www.acr.org/Advocacy/Issues/Regulatory.

⁶Biso, S. M. R., & Vidovich, M. I. (2020). Radiation protection in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Journal of thoracic disease, 12(4), 1648–1655.https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2019.12.86Kim, K. P., and D. L. Miller. “Minimising Radiation Exposure to Physicians Performing Fluoroscopically Guided Cardiac Catheterisation Procedures: A Review.” Radiation Protection Dosimetry 133, no. 4 (February 1, 2009): 227–33.https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncp052.

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¹⁰Kim, K. P., and D. L. Miller. “Minimising Radiation Exposure to Physicians Performing Fluoroscopically Guided Cardiac Catheterisation Procedures: A Review.” Radiation Protection Dosimetry 133, no. 4 (February 1, 2009): 227–33. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncp052.