Respiratory Motion Monitoring Device

Radiation therapy can be used anywhere in the body to treat any kind of cancer. Depending on what type of radiation therapy, it can have some side effects. The most common ones include fatigue, hair loss near the treated area, and skin darkening in the area exposed to a beam of radiation. ("Radiation Therapy for Cancer,” 1) There are also safety concerns that patients have when they are treated with radiation therapy. Many people that receive radiation therapy treatment, worry about exposing family and love ones to radiation, as well as the side effects. Radiation effects on the normal tissues are divided into acute and chronic effects (Schreiber). Acute effects occur during the course of therapy and during the post therapy period (approximately 2-3 weeks after the completion of a course of irradiation) (Schreiber).

Nuclear medicine procedures utilize very small doses of short-lived isotopes (ones that only stay radioactive for a few hours or days), the amount of radiation received is generally less than or equal to that of an x-ray. Whole body and healthy tissue doses can be minimized while the radioisotope is targeted toward the affected tissue or organ. The isotope is then eliminated by the body through the urine or fecal matter.

AEC maxed out: GE’s automatic exposure control (AEC) tools, SmartmA and AutomA, select tube current levels during an exam between minimum and maximum tube current limits based upon the patient habitus as interpreted from the last acquired CT localizer radiograph. If the noise index requested for an image is lower than is allowed by the maximum tube current, the AEC will choose the maximum tube current throughout the scan. This infrequent occurrence can happen due to patient positioning which increases patient dose [17, 18, 31, 32], improperly chosen or set-up protocol [21, 33], or large patient size. If a scan is maxed out in mA for the entire scan, then the average and the maximum mA values will be identical. In such a case, we classify the protocol as having either a manual mA technique or being “maxed out”. If the maximum mA and the average are not equal, then we classify the irradiation event as having utilized

To the contrary of this belief, by allowing untrained professional to administer radiation without the proper licensure or training not only will this result in unsafe practices, but it will also allow for greater permissible error without having to take accountability for their

- Input from the medical staff and clinical departments - Risk to patients if the alarm signal is not attended to or if it malfunctions

The standard-of-care for the treatment of these cancers is chemotherapy and external I define “treatment planning” as creating the plan of action the radiation oncologist feels will provide optimal tumor coverage with minimal radiation to normal tissues, under ideal circumstances. Using MR-guidance and iGyne, the applicator and catheters, which will be used to administer the radiation, are positioned in the patient based on the treatment plan and the acquired 3D images. The hope is that more accurate placement (that is, placement of the instruments as close to the treatment plan as possible) will lead to better

Steps of Radiation Treatment: Consult 1.5 hours Nurses gather information before this appointment Nurse interviews patient Head-to-toe assessment Physician discusses treatment with patient This note is very important, because radiation is a very dangerous thing and you have to make sure you know the steps and for what you’re doing. Never take a risk.

Med-Surg Practice Test B Remediation Kirsten Lute Cancer Treatment Options: Safety Precautions for a Client who has a Sealed Radiation Implant (Therapeutic Procedure, RM AMS RN 9.0 Chp 92) Inform client of the need to remain in an indicated position to prevent dislodgment of the radiation implant. Instruct client to call the nurse for

Measure Them In the health care setting the measurement of everything in regards to patient care must be closely monitored. In respiratory care we have many important diagnostic data that we must monitor to keep our patients safety. We deal closely with the lungs and monitor pressures, sounds, and x-rays, that we can see their performance and characteristics. Precise measurements are critical to patient care because they can determine the patient’s condition. The outcome of not getting measurements could lead to patients becoming critical or worse death. Respiratory closely monitors mechanical ventilation pressures, MetaNeb pressures, vital signs, breath sounds, BiPAP, medications, and other related items. Certain protocols are in place for the respiratory practitioner

Leukemia is a cancer that affects the bone marrow. The bon marrow is the soft spongy center of the bone that produces blood cells. Leukemia is found in white blood cells or leukocytes. The white blood cells help to fight ff infections and other diseases. Normally, cells produce in an

Research Question Is Device-assisted breathing effective in reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients? The research aims to evaluate the importance of device-guided breathing in the treatment of hypertension. So far, the studies conducted on the topic have provided mixed results. Some studies found that slow breathing reduces the pulse pressure in patients even when used with conventional medication.4 The method is more effective with using loaded breathing. The benefits can last for up to six weeks after the breathing training. Other researchers found that device-guided breathing is effective in reducing systolic blood pressure even in the absence of training.14 Other researchers using different research tools also endorse the use of device-guided breathing in the reduction of hypertension.16,17 Opposite results have been found by researchers who found that device-assisted breathing to be ineffective and unpractical.18,19,20,21

Lung cancer has become the second most common cancer in both men and women which is by far the leading cause of cancer death among people1.Radiation therapy is used as one of the main treatment strategies for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) especially if the lung tumor is not surgically removable because of its size and location2, 3. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has evolved over the past two decades and shows advantages over conventional radiation therapy which delivers higher radiation dose to tumor while avoiding healthy surrounding tissues and organs in several (up to five) treatment fractions4.

In 2007, it is predicted that almost 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States (Pickle et al., 2007). More than half of these cancer patients will undergo the use of radiation as a means for treating cancer at some point during the course of their disease (Perez and Brady, 1998). Cancer, a disease caused by an uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells, affects millions of people around the world. Radiotherapy is one of the well known various methods used to treat cancer, where high powered rays are aimed directly at the tumor from the outside of the body as external radiation or an instrument is surgically placed inside the body producing a result of internal radiation. Radiation is delivered to the cancerous regions of the body to damage and destroy the cells in that area, terminating the rapid growth and division of the cells. Radiation therapy has been used by medicine as a treatment for cancer from the beginning of the twentieth century, with its earliest beginnings coming from the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen. With the advancements in physics and computer programming, radiation had greatly evolved towards the end of the twentieth century and made the radiation treatment more effective. Radiation therapy is a curative treatment approach for cancer because it is successful in killing cancerous tumor cells and stop them from regenerating.

After completing the questionnaires, approval was required from the hospital head who is responsible for every activity taking place in his hospital. The main study of this experiment is to check the non-availability of the equipment or failure, which would risk the patient’s life in danger. The rules and regulations or criteria for conducting the research on the criticality of the equipment is the risk of failure or breakdown of the equipment when it is used on a patient, the average time used for a patient, average number of patients used or serviced by the equipment, operational life of the equipment and the availability of alternative equipment in case of failure or malfunction at critical times. There are around 6782 devices were examined during the process. We have taken only 5 equipment’s for the study in this paper.

In terms of education, enormous equipment and expensive yet high quality machines have always surrounded the College of Medical Radiation Technology (or CMRT). However, it is not just about the cost but also about their effectiveness and usefulness for the CMRT students. With these machines, students get to have hands-on activities that prepare them for when they take their internship in hospitals and as future health