Assessing and ensuring patient safety during breath-holding for radiotherapy
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Assessing and ensuring patient safety during breath-holding for radiotherapy
OBJECTIVE While there is recent interest in using repeated deep inspiratory breath-holds, or prolonged single breath-holds, to improve radiotherapy delivery, breath-holding has risks. There are no published guidelines for monitoring patient safety, and there is little clinical awareness of the pronounced blood pressure rise and the potential for gradual asphyxia that occur during breath-holding...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Radiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-1285,1748-880X
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20140454