Formal education in radiation safety during interventional endoscopy training remains limited and sparse. Learn how to promote radiation safety in daily clinical practice, now and in the future.

Release Date: January 2022
Viewing Time: 1.5 hours

1. List the three pillars of radiation safety.
2. Recognize best practices in radiation protection of patients and staff.
3. Identify best safety practices your individual interventional endoscopy teams should deploy based on local factors at play.

1. Close other applications and browser tabs. This decreases the load on memory so your computer or other device can focus on streaming.
2. Use a 5 GHz frequency if your router supports it. The common 2.4 GHz frequency is used by household appliances, so is more crowded. Avoiding it is like getting into the carpool lane on a freeway: smoother sailing.
3. Use Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi if possible but GI LEAP is built with Wi-Fi in mind. 
4. Monitor your internet connection. If your ISP has promised you 5MBps and you are getting only 1MBps, it's time for a phone call to your internet provider to sort that out.