The children’s radiational safety during the diagnostic radiation examination

Abstract

In the article, numerous facts are presented concerning the sharp increase of the radiational load to citizens of Russia, especially to children which are most sensitive to radiation. The reason of the increase arc baseless and sometimes useless roentgenologic studies that have sometimes a systemic character and are named as dispanserization, prophylactic fluorography, or fluoromammography. In total, that moment leads to the morbidity increase dealing with the radiational load and, therefore, to the mortality increase.

The article contains the call addressed to medical and pediatric society to pay much attention to the harm of baseless use of radiation methods in medical practice with diagnostic aims.