The team saving you stands in X-rays.
Why the people who open blocked arteries work inside scattered radiation, and one new way to stop it at the table.
The story
To steer a wire through your arteries, doctors watch a live X-ray. Most of it passes through you, but some bounces off your body and sprays around the room. That scatter reaches the team, procedure after procedure, for years. Egg Medical's EggNest system puts shielding under, over and at the head of the table, so the scatter is stopped before it reaches anyone.
Three things to know
The risk to the cath lab team is scatter: X-rays that bounce off the patient.
The usual defence is heavy lead aprons, worn for hours at a time.
Shielding built into the table aims to let staff wear ultralight aprons, or none where the rules allow.
Sources
- Egg Medical, EggNest system ↗
- Egg Medical, EggNest Complete 2.0 press release, 6 July 2026 ↗
- Andreassi MG et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016
- Venneri L et al. Am Heart J. 2009
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