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» 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.
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The 10-day rule was established by the International Commission on Radiological Protection to minimize the potential for performing x-ray exams on pregnant women. The basis of the rule was to do abdominal and pelvic x-ray exams only during the 10 days following the onset of menstruation.
This is the ‘28-day rule’. Approved by the Board of the Faculty of Clinical Radiology: 28 February 2013. The 28-day rule replaced the 10-day rule introduced in 1986, but there is evidence2,3 that the incidence of childhood cancer may be increased slightly following in utero irradiation before a period has been missed.
28 Ιουλ 2018 · Abstract. Due to the undeniable benefits of X-rays in diagnosis and treatment of diseases and the increasing use of it, the need for preventing unnecessary radiation from pregnant women is ...
What happens when the patient presents for examination for which 10 day rule normally applies? Establish and record the patients pregnancy status, LMP & explain reasons for
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)....
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.
