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What is the "10-day rule"? What if a patient underwent an abdominal or pelvic x-ray exam before realizing that she was pregnant? How safe are x-ray exams of the chest and extremities during pregnancy? Can cardiac catheterization be performed on a pregnant patient?
» What is the ten-day rule and what is its status? It is important for radiology facilities to have procedures to determine the pregnancy status of female patients of reproductive age before any radiological procedure that could result in a significant dose to the embryo or fetus.
23 Φεβ 2018 · 10-DAY RULE If it is unclear whether or not patient is pregnant, the 10-day rule for women of reproductive age should be adopted, esp for high dose procedures (e.g. fluoroscopy, pelvic CT). The ICRP states the 10-day Rule thus: This 10-day rule has been amended to permit radiographic examination of female patients of reproductive age, provided ...
The Health Protection Agency provides practical advice regarding the 10-day rule for what are classified as high-dose examinations.3 These are investigations resulting in doses to the uterus of ‘some tens of milligray’.
10 day rule should be applied4. In practice this means that abdominal or pelvic CT and some barium studies should be scheduled in the first 10 days of their menstrual cycle. This timing refers to patients with a regular 28 day cycle and should be scaled according to cycle length.
higher dose examinations on all potentially pregnant women to the first ten days of their menstrual cycle when conception is very unlikely to have occurred (the so-called ten-day rule)....
22 Απρ 1995 · The “10 day rule” recommended that, in women of child-bearing potential, non-urgent x ray examinations that entailed pelvic irradiation should be restricted to the first 10 days of the menstrual cycle. Its rationale was to avoid irradiating a fetus before the mother realised that she was pregnant.
