Demographics, occupational information, ICP workload, utilization
of PPE of interventional cardiologists
The ICG included 642 interventional
cardiologists who were characterized
by relatively young age (39.9+/-6.7 years), high male proportion
(75.9%), normal BMI (23.4+/-2.8 kg/m2), and healthy
lifestyle (current smoking rate: 7.6%; regular drinking rate: 1.1%).
Most of these cardiologists have a master’s or doctoral degree (77.4%)
and > half (55.8%) have a title of associate chief
physician or chief physician. Most interventional cardiologists work in
general hospitals (94.5%), hospitals of the highest rank (tier IIIA)
(79.8%), and in tier I or II cities (66.4%) in China. They had an
average of 8.8 years of occupational experience of ICPs and conducted an
average of 340.2 ICPs per year. The average time spent on ICPs was 3.1
days per week and 5.0 hours per day.
The average time with wearing lead
PPE was 4.2 hours per day. The most common utilized PPEs include lead
clothes (99.4%), lead collars (94.7%), lead apron (60.1%) and
personal radiation dose counter (52.8%). The reported data above is
summarized in Table 1.