Nursing perspective of gamma knife of treatment
Gamma knife is a new noninvasive method for treatment of patient with brain tumors. ‎Another name of this procedure is steriotatic radiosurgery.‎‏ ‏This computerized advanced ‎technique was implicated by a team including neurosurgeon, neuroradialogist, oncolog...
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2006-10-01
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| description | Gamma knife is a new noninvasive method for treatment of patient with brain tumors. ‎Another name of this procedure is steriotatic radiosurgery.‎‏ ‏This computerized advanced ‎technique was implicated by a team including neurosurgeon, neuroradialogist, oncologist, and ‎a nurse. This method is used for treatment of certain brain tumors and lesions. The benefits are ‎low risk of postoperative complication, no general anesthesia, high accuracy, safety and ‎rehabilitation, improved outcomes and faster return to home.‎ ‎ Four stage of this procedure include:‎ ‏1‏‎- frame placement ‏2‏‎- imaging ‏3‏‎- planning ‏4‏‎- Treatment A gamma knife nurse is usually the first person who communicates with the patient and is ‎present at patient s side before treatment until follow up. Nurse is also the liaison between ‎treatment team and patients. Their duties include maintaining effective relationship between ‎medical team, planning patient s treatment, cooperation with physician, providing nursing care ‎to patients, educating patients and their family and physical and mental support. ‎ |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6891bfbd566342bf8c6b0b07bb43cf982025-08-20T02:38:55ZengGuilan University of Medical SciencesJournal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery2588-37122588-37202006-10-011624752Nursing perspective of gamma knife of treatmentparvaneh vasli0 Gamma knife is a new noninvasive method for treatment of patient with brain tumors. ‎Another name of this procedure is steriotatic radiosurgery.‎‏ ‏This computerized advanced ‎technique was implicated by a team including neurosurgeon, neuroradialogist, oncologist, and ‎a nurse. This method is used for treatment of certain brain tumors and lesions. The benefits are ‎low risk of postoperative complication, no general anesthesia, high accuracy, safety and ‎rehabilitation, improved outcomes and faster return to home.‎ ‎ Four stage of this procedure include:‎ ‏1‏‎- frame placement ‏2‏‎- imaging ‏3‏‎- planning ‏4‏‎- Treatment A gamma knife nurse is usually the first person who communicates with the patient and is ‎present at patient s side before treatment until follow up. Nurse is also the liaison between ‎treatment team and patients. Their duties include maintaining effective relationship between ‎medical team, planning patient s treatment, cooperation with physician, providing nursing care ‎to patients, educating patients and their family and physical and mental support. ‎http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-243-77&slc_lang=en&sid=1Gamma knife Steriotatic surgery nursing |
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