Dr. Daniel Dorri on Instagram: "🦺 Why Do Spine Specialists Wear Lead Aprons? During spine procedures, we use live X-ray (fluoroscopy) to ensure precision and safety. X-ray radiation can scatter — not just travel in one direction. That’s why you’ll see us wearing lead aprons 👇 ✔️ Blocks up to 99% of scattered radiation ✔️ Protects vital organs ✔️ Allows us to perform procedures safely, accurately, and confidently Your safety — and ours — always comes first. 🩻 Precision. Protection. Care. #Spin

🧐But why? Emergency CT Abdomen Pelvis... 🤰Why did this pregnant patient have a CT of her abdomen and pelvis?! Medical imaging procedures that involve ionizing radiation have an inherant risk.Whether it's an x-ray, fluoroscopy, CT, or a nuclear medical exam (like PET), they all have risks. Depending on patient factors and the amount of radiation used, lonizing radiation has enough energy to damage DNA. 🚑This particular patient is a 30 year old female that was 37 weeks pregnant at the time and