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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 pron...

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Autores principales: Parkes, M J, Green, S, Stevens, A M, Clutton-Brock, T H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25189121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20140454