Discussion Week 4
How might a patient undergoing an invasive radiologic diagnostic procedure be at greater risk than a
patient undergoing a non- invasive procedure?
Well to start off an invasive procedure is usually a procedure that involves breaking of the skin. So, to do
an invasive radiologic diagnostic procedure would be doing x-rays under the skin. This would in turn
project the x-rays under the skin basically putting the radiation directly into the patient. This would
make it so the patient would receive more radiation, where as a non-invasive would just be normal xrays and normal amounts of radiation. So, the greater risk would be the fact of giving the patient a
higher dose of radiation.