Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) - Video Lesson

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. This lesson is about one of the effects of high doses of radiation, acute radiation syndrome, or ARS. It's important to understand the causes and symptoms of ARS is it can be very dangerous. Even though the likelihood of a patient developing ARS from diagnostic imaging, is extremely low. First, let's establish some context for the radiation doses and risks associated with radiation exposure in diagnostic imaging. Diagnostic imaging modalities, such as radiography, CT, mammography, fluoroscopy, and nuclear medicine, expose patients to very low doses of radiation. Some are more than others. But the dose for any single procedure is relatively low. So in diagnostic imaging, the most likely effect of radiation exposure