CT dose surveys have shown that the range of effective doses for a given examination can vary by more than an order of magnitude between different institutions. This is a much larger variation than can be explained by differences in dose efficiency between scanner models, and therefore leads to...
and therefore the effective pharmacological treatment of pain requires the active participation of the patient. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) involves the patient in a direct manner; the patient is given control over at least some aspects (usually the timing of doses) of analgesic drug ...
Do not use this medicine to relieve mild pain, or in situations when non-narcotic medication is effective. This medicine should not be used to treat pain that you only have once in a while or "as needed". vWhen oxycodone is used for a long time, it may become habit-forming, causing ...
Avoidance of ICU experience in selected patients is not only beneficial for effective use of hospital resources but also contributes significantly to patient satisfaction after CABG.6 Eight of these patients, who were very carefully selected, were discharged from the hospital the afternoon of their ...
“Dr Russell is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) 70@70 Senior Research Fellow. The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care.” ...
Poor medication adherence is a pervasive issue with considerable health and socioeconomic consequences. Although the underlying reasons are generally understood, traditional intervention strategies rooted in patient-centric education and empowerment have
However, similar to GBM, metastatic tumors in the brain remain an overarching clinical challenge, and developing effective personalized therapies for BM treatment is a major unmet medical need. A strategy to overcome this clinical challenge is to develop a “para-clinical” platform in which the ...
For the sake of conceptional clarity it would be of an advantage to make use of the value "area-skin dose", which in the diagnostic range is numerically equal to the value R cm 2 used up to now. Using the ancillary concepts of "effective length", the integral dose may readily be ...
This epigenetic characterization allows a refined molecular classification of CNS tumors and is increasingly being incorporated into clinical practice. Despite rapid advances in the characterization of the genomic and epigenetic landscape of pHGG, effective therapeutic approaches are still lacking for almost ...
For the dose prediction of the Dp model, the test process is carried out with the patient CT as an input, and dose prediction is performed not only on the PTV contour but also on the area that does not include the PTV contour as the entire area inside the body contour. RapidPlan model...