How risky are Pediatric CT Scans?

How risky are Pediatric CT Scans?

It was recently revealed that of about 600,000 abdominal and head CT Scans performed annually in children under 15 years of age About 500 might die later from cancer attributed to those CT scans. Between 20 and 50 % of CT Scans could be replaced by another type of imaging or not done at all.

- Health Capsule TOI

radiation exposure from a CT scan

Significance of radiation exposure from a CT scan

A new study has revealed that a SINGLE CT scan may be twice as as the risk of radiation released from Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.                                                            

- Health Capsule TOI