radiological examination shall not be included in the healthy children and infants
Date:2013-05-03 13:55 Source:Ministry of Health
Xinhua Beijing December 21 (Reporter Hu Hao) Ministry of Health issued a notice on the 21st, to regulate the application of the radiological examination of the physical examination, radiological examination shall not be included in the healthy items for children and infants.
The notice stipulates that medical institutions to develop "healthy project directory should be developed for different groups of scientific radiographic examination of the project, shall not be included in the radiological examination of children and infants healthy items. The same time, healthy application of radiological examination techniques should be informed in advance in the examination program or a medical examination table purpose and risks of the subjects of the examination. Strict control of radiological examination frequency and radiation doses to the general application of radiological examination techniques not more than 1 year in healthy.
The notice said the healthy application of radiological examination techniques must follow the principle of optimization of the legitimacy and protection, under the premise of ensuring the quality of diagnostic imaging, to minimize radiation doses to strictly control the use of larger doses, a higher risk of radiographic examination of technology. The physical examination should give priority to ordinary X-ray photography, CR (computerized X-ray photography); areas where conditions permit, it is recommended to replace the ordinary X-ray photography and CR check DR (digital X-ray photography). The physical examination may not be used directly phosphor screen perspective; unless there are clear indications for disease risk, such as age above 50 years of age and a large number of long-term smoking, cardiovascular disease risk assessment in high-risk, or not to use the CT (computed tomography device); shall not the use of PET (positron emission tomography device), PET / CT, SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography apparatus) and SPECT / CT.
Earlier, media reports, the high utilization rate of physical examination radiological examination, radiation may give cause harm, or even lead to cancer, and should not be used as a routine examination of the physical examination of the child.
