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Berks County Radiation Poisoning Lawsuits from CT Brain Scans

Are you or a family member an innocent victim of too much radiation from a CT brain scan?

Perhaps you suffered a stroke or the symptoms of a stroke or debilitating migraine headaches? Perhaps when you went to the hospital or clinic, a radiologist took a brain scan to better see what was going on?

Were you warned about the possibility of too much radiation?

What are the serious symptoms of over radiation or radiation poisoning?

The most telltale symptom is hair loss, or more peculiarly, a symmetrical ring of hair missing between the base of the neck and the upper ear. Other more serious radiation poisoning side effects are memory loss, confusion, vision problems, seizures, brain damage, and greater cancer risks.

Who is at fault for radiation poisoning?

Of course, no one entity is going to raise their hand and step forward in corporate America. This is where a personal injury law firm experienced in medical device malfunctions which is supposed to aid in the diagnosis and early detection advanced computed tomography (CT) scan technology to aid in the diagnosis and early detection of cancer, cardiac, neurological and other conditions with the goal of significantly improving treatment plans and patient health outcomes.

These scans require more radiation than a typical CT scan. A regular CT scan to the brain is the equivalent of about 100 chest X-rays, says Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, acting director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. By contrast, a perfusion CT scan of the brain is equal to several hundred chest x-rays.

Patients at the four hospitals who received excess radiation were exposed to the equivalent of several thousand X-rays instead — three to eight times the expected radiation dose.

Shuren says it's not clear how such overdoses could have happened. "It could be due to human error," he says. "Or it could be due to problems in the design of the CT scanners, or it could be a combination of both."

found major variations in the amount of radiation used for all types of CT scans and estimated cancer risk from the scans. She says 1 in every 250 patients who undergo CT scans of the abdomen or pelvis will likely get cancer as a result of the radiation from the scan. Clearly, according to the study, patients who receive higher radiation doses are at greater cancer risk.

Smith-Bindman says standards for radiation dose should be universal and tightly regulated. She says CT scans can be just as effective with much lower doses of radiation than the current dosage used today.