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Study of upright patient positioning reproducibility in image-guided proton therapy for head and neck cancers.

Radiotherapy and Oncology
PURPOSE To evaluate the patient's positioning reproducibility during upright treatment with image-guided adaptive proton therapy (IGAPT) for head and neck cancers.
J. Feldman   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prehabilitation is positive for patients

BMJ, 2019
Giles and Cummins express reservations about training patients during cancer treatment, saying that patients might be too upset about their diagnosis and too overloaded with information and that those from lower social classes might be less able to engage in the programmes.1 We have been running our programme …
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POSITIONING AGED PATIENTS

Anesthesiology Clinics of North America, 2000
While geriatric patients do not present problems of positioning that are found only in their age group, their acquired infirmities may intensify the likelihood and severity of complications common to younger peers. Careful preoperative evaluation of potential positioning problems is needed, as is explicit recording of positioning recommendations in a ...
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A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Norwegian OR Nurses' Patient Positioning Priorities.

AORN Journal, 2020
The purpose of patient positioning is to provide optimal surgical site exposure for surgical team members and prevent negative patient outcomes. This study explores perioperative nurses' experiences when positioning patients for surgery.
Kathrine Johnsen Brooker   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

POSITIONING PATIENTS in the OPERATING ROOM

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1959
is entirely dependent on the surgi_cal team for his comfort and safety. The surgeon is concerned with securing adequate exposure of the operative field, the anesthetist with maintaining a good airway, and the nurse with protecting the patient from injuries that might result from poor positioning.
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Incidence of Fractures From Perioperative Blood Pressure Cuff Use, Tourniquet Use, and Patient Positioning in Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Journal of pediatric orthopedics, 2019
Background: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare connective tissue disease with varying severity. Patients with OI are highly susceptible to skeletal fractures. Optimal perioperative management of these patients is not well defined. We investigated the
B. Sullivan   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A platform for patient positioning and motion monitoring in ocular proton therapy with a non-dedicated beamline.

Physica medica (Testo stampato), 2019
PURPOSE At Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO, Pavia, Italy) ocular proton therapy (OPT) is delivered using a non-dedicated beamline. This paper describes the novel clinical workflow as well as technologies and methods adopted to achieve ...
R. Via   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dose-guided patient positioning in proton radiotherapy using multicriteria-optimization.

Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 2019
Proton radiotherapy (PT) requires accurate target alignment before each treatment fraction, ideally utilizing 3D in-room X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging.
C. Kurz   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patient Positioning in Arthroscopic Management of Posterior-Inferior Shoulder Instability: A Systematic Review Comparing Beach Chair and Lateral Decubitus Approaches.

Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopy And Related, 2019
PURPOSE To analyze the available literature pertaining to clinical outcomes and complications of posterior-inferior shoulder stabilization performed arthroscopically in either the beach chair (BC) or lateral decubitus (LD) position.
D. de Sa   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patient Positioning and Equipment

2023
Carlo Giussani, Andrea Di Cristofori
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