This app is a radiation protection awareness tool for health professionals that provide easy access to information about eye radiation doses and protection guidelines.

Description
• Learn what is required for proper eye lens protection from radiation-induced lens opacities and cataract
• Calculate occupational eye radiation exposure during interventional procedures e.g. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), Image-Guided Liver Biopsy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ..etc.
• Estimate annual eye radiation dose based on the workload and compare to the ICRP dose limit
• Show the percentage dose reduction with using radiation protection tools e.g. ceiling screen and leaded glasses
• Indicate risk of radiation-induced cataract
• Get easy access to relevant radiation protection guidelines for the healthcare personnel exposed to recurrent small doses of ionizing radiation to the eye lenses and those without formal radiation protection expertise
• Learn how to monitor eye dose? And who should be monitored?
• Learn about radiation eye dose in Kuwait
• Provide access to training materials
• Notifies app users about ongoing or upcoming conferences, meetings or webinars, and other related information related to occupational radiation protection and monitoring of eye lenses.
• This App is produced in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) through technical cooperation project KUW9009 to provide a higher level of outreach with convenience for clinicians. The project is partially by the Kuwait foundation of the advancement of sciences (KFAS) under project code (PR17-13NR-01).

The international committee of radiation protection (ICRP) published its review of recent studies and evidence that there were some deterministic effects of radiation exposure where threshold doses are lower than previously considered. For the eye lens, the threshold for absorbed dose is now considered to be 0.5 Gy. On that basis, ICRP has reduced the annual eye lens dose limit for staff by a factor of 7.5 from 150 mSv to 20 mSv. This app is an awareness tool for health professionals that provide easy access to information about eye radiation doses and protection guidelines.