What are OPRIPALC’s objectives?

1. Promote the culture of radiation safety in interventional pediatric radiology in Latin America and the Caribbean, with an initial focus on interventional cardiology.
   
2. Improve radiation safety and its quality in participating centers.
   
3. Define optimization strategies based on a collection of patient doses along with image quality assessment, from a sample of representative hospitals in different Latin American and Caribbean countries using national or regional diagnostic reference levels. 
4. Produce a regional consensus document that offers guidance to improve the optimization of protection and safety in pediatric intervention practices in Latin America and the Caribbean.