Progressive lenses

[Pain_doc]

I've used microlite radiation protection glasses for decades. Well, I now wear progressive lenses and need to get a pair of glasses for use with fluoroscopy. Any of you older folks have advice on the lenses you use? I worry that a progressive lens for the microlite glasses may be "too small of a field of vision". (that I'd keep raising and lowering my head to try and find that sweet spot until I develop neck pains...)

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[kstarm]

Depending on your risk you may consider if you even need to get them:

Interv Pain Med
. 2023 Aug 9;2(3):100273.
doi: 10.1016/j.inpm.2023.100273. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Radiation exposure in fluoroscopy guided spinal interventions: A prospective observational study of standard practice in a physiatry academic center​

 

[Agast]

Can you get the lead glasses that fit over regular glasses?

 

[Gauss]

Depending on your risk you may consider if you even need to get them:

Interv Pain Med
. 2023 Aug 9;2(3):100273.
doi: 10.1016/j.inpm.2023.100273. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Radiation exposure in fluoroscopy guided spinal interventions: A prospective observational study of standard practice in a physiatry academic center​

If these are attendings that allow fellows to do majority of the work, why would they be exposed to much fluoro when compared to PP where you're running everything yourself? Need more info: "Four pain physicians of variable experience"

 

[kstarm]

If these are attendings that allow fellows to do majority of the work, why would they be exposed to much fluoro when compared to PP where you're running everything yourself? Need more info: "Four pain physicians of variable experience"

" We calculated an average exposure per intervention and extrapolated the recorded exposure to a maximum, worst-case scenario of a caseload of 13 procedures per day, 5 days a week and 52 weeks per year."

I had posted an earlier study in a different thread as well. Based on the available evidence that I have seen it appears the amount of radiation that gets to the eyes is unlikely to be clinically meaningful. Again, you may have risk factors, or just want to use caution to be as safe as possible.

 

[callmeanesthesia]

“Maximum, worst-case scenario of 13 cases per day.”

🤣

 

[kstarm]

Yeah I was waiting for someone to comment on that....

 

[BobBarker]

But 5 days a week no vacation does make up for some of that.

 

[NJPAIN]

I wear progressive lenses as well. I wasted hundreds of dollars on Rx protective eyewear. Could never successfully tolerate switching between my daily glasses and the protective ones. Tried twice and even had them remake a pair. Both ended up in the garbage so I gave up until our radiation safety people warned me about my eye exposure a few months back. So, my employer paid for glasses that I place over my Rx. So far so good. Caution: Do not get a face shield rather than over glasses. Face shields give little protection.

 

[bedrock]

I wear progressive lenses as well. I wasted hundreds of dollars on Rx protective eyewear. Could never successfully tolerate switching between my daily glasses and the protective ones. Tried twice and even had them remake a pair. Both ended up in the garbage so I gave up until our radiation safety people warned me about my eye exposure a few months back. So, my employer paid for glasses that I place over my Rx. So far so good. Caution: Do not get a face shield rather than over glasses. Face shields give little protection.

Hm. I was thinking of getting a face shield to protect my eyes…..and my pretty face.

So the face shield blocks very little radiation?

 

[NJPAIN]

Hm. I was thinking of getting a face shield to protect my eyes…..and my pretty face.

So the face shield blocks very little radiation?

Look at the Pb equivalent. It is much lower than the glasses.

 

[cowboydoc]

I misunderstood the title of the post, but I was going to recommend the advice of ducttape, as he seems to see everything through a blue, progressive lens.