Opinion: Lead aprons offer little protection during X-rays. Why do so many clinicians keep using them?
Think back to the last time you had an X-ray: The technician probably placed a lead apron over part of your body to protect it from radiation. That’s now an outdated practice: The American Association of Physicists in Medicine no longer supports shielding patients’ reproductive organs and fetuses during imaging studies that use radiation, such as X-rays and CT scans.
Changing this practice has been a near impossible feat.
