Avaliação das doses médicas em pacientes pediátricos internados em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

Diagnostic radiology is widely used in the hospital environment, and it is extremely important for the assessment and management of newborn patients admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). During hospitalization of neonates, they are constantly subjected to various radiological examinations, and are frequently exposed to ionizing radiation, which is of great concern due to the absorbed dose. Thus, this conclusion work presents a survey of the doses received in these procedures. For this, searches were carried out in scientific papers related to the topic, and the most relevant data were extracted and listed in tables, in order to compare these data among several authors. From the data collected, it may be concluded that the x-ray exams in neonatal patients, they do not have a standardized practice, varying from author to author the values of the radiographic technical parameters used.