Quality assurance guidelines for interstitial hyperthermia

Guidelines and Quality Assurance for Acquired Cytogenetics

ASHP Guidelines on Quality Assurance for Pharmacy-Prepared Sterile Products

Patient morbidity and mortality have resulted from incorrectly prepared or contaminated pharmacy-prepared products. 1–7 Pharmacists seldom know that inaccurate or contaminated products are dispensed when pharmacy quality monitors are inadequate. 8–10 In contemporary health care organizations, more patients are receiving compounded sterile products that are stored for extended periods before use...

Guidelines for hypertension: are quality-assurance measures on target?

Guideline committees recommend targets of treatment based on trial data on efficacy and effectiveness. Quality-assurance initiatives apply these parameters in the general practice setting. Therefore, targets must be feasible and achievable by the practicing physicians who are judged by these targets as goals for care. We evaluated 437 patients in the Rush University Hypertension Clinic using th...

New magnetic implant material for interstitial hyperthermia

Magnetic properties and heat generation characteristics of a bio-compatible ceramic Mg1þxFe222xTixO4 system have been investigated as an implant material for the magnetic induction hyperthermia. Curie temperature ðTcÞ of the ceramic decreases with increasing x; and become Tc , 350 K at x 1⁄4 0:35 and ,315 K at x 1⁄4 0:38; which is suitable Curie temperature for implant material. The temperature...

Local Hyperthermia with Interstitial Techniques1

The heating of deep visceral tumors with implanted electrodes and with self-regulating ferromagnetic thermoseeds was inves tigated. Clinical trials on six patients heated with implanted electrodes indicate that good local tumor control can be obtained by application of hyperthermia during a normal course of radio therapy. The heating method was found practical, and neither toxicity nor severe p...