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FDA Issues New Guidelines for CT Scanning | DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog

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Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding member and senior trial attorney

As reported in a recent article by the New York Times, “the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that manufacturers of CT scanners should do a better job of training and educating those who use their equipment, and that the machines themselves could be made safer by warning operators that a dangerously high radiation dose is about to be administered.

These two conclusions . . . are the result of a yearlong investigation by the F.D.A. into hundreds of radiation overdoses in 2008 and 2009 that occurred during a specific diagnostic test for a stroke, called a CT brain perfusion scan.”

Over-radiation can be very dangerous.  Manufacturers of scanners and physicians must work together to maximize patient safety.

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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri was recently (2011 edition) acknowledged as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Best Lawyers, and has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in the country.

Mr. Zambri is regularly asked to present seminars to lawyers and doctors, as well as both medical and law students concerning medication errors, medical malpractice litigation, and safety improvements.

If you have any questions about your legal rights, please email Mr. Zambri at [email protected] or call him at 202-822-1899.

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