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Implementation of Cardiac Stereotactic Radiotherapy: From Literature to the Linac

Stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) has been applied to treat cardiac arrhythmias, but our institution had not yet implemented this technique. Here, we explain how we used implementation science and knowledge translation to provide cardiac SBRT to a critically ill patient with malignancy-associated ref...

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Autores principales: Glicksman, Rachel M, Bhaskaran, Abhishek, Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy, Lindsay, Patricia, Coolens, Catherine, Conroy, Leigh, Letourneau, Daniel, Lok, Benjamin H, Giuliani, Meredith, Hope, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33816005
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13606
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author Glicksman, Rachel M
Bhaskaran, Abhishek
Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy
Lindsay, Patricia
Coolens, Catherine
Conroy, Leigh
Letourneau, Daniel
Lok, Benjamin H
Giuliani, Meredith
Hope, Andrew
author_facet Glicksman, Rachel M
Bhaskaran, Abhishek
Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy
Lindsay, Patricia
Coolens, Catherine
Conroy, Leigh
Letourneau, Daniel
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Giuliani, Meredith
Hope, Andrew
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description Stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) has been applied to treat cardiac arrhythmias, but our institution had not yet implemented this technique. Here, we explain how we used implementation science and knowledge translation to provide cardiac SBRT to a critically ill patient with malignancy-associated refractory ventricular tachycardia. We reviewed the critical factors that enabled the implementation of this urgent treatment, such as the context of the implementation, the characteristics of the intervention, and the stakeholders. These principles can be used by other radiation programs to implement novel treatments in urgent settings, where the gold standard process of planning and developing policies and protocols is not possible.
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spelling pubmed-80114712021-04-02 Implementation of Cardiac Stereotactic Radiotherapy: From Literature to the Linac Glicksman, Rachel M Bhaskaran, Abhishek Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy Lindsay, Patricia Coolens, Catherine Conroy, Leigh Letourneau, Daniel Lok, Benjamin H Giuliani, Meredith Hope, Andrew Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) has been applied to treat cardiac arrhythmias, but our institution had not yet implemented this technique. Here, we explain how we used implementation science and knowledge translation to provide cardiac SBRT to a critically ill patient with malignancy-associated refractory ventricular tachycardia. We reviewed the critical factors that enabled the implementation of this urgent treatment, such as the context of the implementation, the characteristics of the intervention, and the stakeholders. These principles can be used by other radiation programs to implement novel treatments in urgent settings, where the gold standard process of planning and developing policies and protocols is not possible. Cureus 2021-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8011471/ /pubmed/33816005 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13606 Text en Copyright © 2021, Glicksman et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Letourneau, Daniel
Lok, Benjamin H
Giuliani, Meredith
Hope, Andrew
Implementation of Cardiac Stereotactic Radiotherapy: From Literature to the Linac
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title_sort implementation of cardiac stereotactic radiotherapy: from literature to the linac
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33816005
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