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Effect of Patient Positioning on CT Number Accuracy: A Phantom Study Comparing Energy Integrating and Deep Silicon Photon Counting Detector CT. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Comput Assist Tomogr
Salyapongse AM   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Importance of Correct Patient Positioning in Theatres and Implications of Mal-Positioning

open access: yesJournal of Perioperative Practice, 2010
Patient positioning in theatre pertains to how a patient is transferred and positioned for a specific procedure. Patient safety is a central focus of care within the NHS and every healthcare practitioner must ensure that patients are protected from harm
Emeka Oragui   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Patient Positioning in Radiotherapy

2020 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2020
External beam radiotherapy is one of the main methods of cancer treatment in curative and palliative oncology. It aims at precise delivery of high dose to a target volume, which is performed in a series of defined fractions by a linear accelerator. To ensure the effectiveness of the therapy and the safety of the patient, high reproducibility of the ...
Wei Guo   +4 more
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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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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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Patient Positioning

2022
Marco G. Patti   +2 more
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