We evaluated how 8 separate factors may have contributed to survey responses related to procedural comfort. Radiosurgery in the gamma knife unit was found to be very or adequately comfortable (n = 99) or very uncomfortable (n = 1). Neuroimaging was described as very or adequately comfortable (n = 93), minimally uncomfortable (n = 3), or very uncomfortable (n = 4). These patients described frame application as very or adequately comfortable (n = 73), minimally uncomfortable (n = 18), or very uncomfortable (n = 9). All 100 patients said that they felt comfortable before stereotactic frame application, and all patients later remembered frame application. In an initial 100-patient cohort, 89 patients said they had received adequate oral and/or intravenous sedation before the procedure. The radiosurgery was completed in all patients with same-day discharge. Patients were surveyed by a nurse practitioner across all elements of their procedural experience prior to same-day discharge. We evaluated 125 patients who underwent stereotactic radiosurgery using a frame-based, gamma knife technique. Our purpose was to define this experience to determine areas for improvement. The provision of a positive experience is part of quality health care. In an awake surgical procedure, the patient has a unique opportunity to comment on all aspects of care. Key Words: Gamma knife radiosurgery, nursing approaches, stereotactic radiosurgeryĪll physicians seek to improve the patient experience. in this review the aim is to be a review of nursing approaches in gamma knife radiosurgery treatment. Nurses have an active role in the care and discharge planning far before the procedure, during the procedure, post-procedure. As increase the effectiveness of stereotactic radiosurgery, nurses working in this field must need improving themselves, good knowledge of anatomy and have re/evant technical equipment of gamma knife radiosurgery. This method is performed with the aid ofa stereotacticįrame, has been used to treat metastatic brain tumors, acoustic neuromas, meningiomas, cerebral arteriovenous malformations and other intracranial diseases. At the present time, one of the main methods used in stereotactic radiosurgery is gamma knife radiosurgery. The main purpose of this method is treating the target tissue via giving maximum radiation dose and giving minimum radiation dose surrounding normal tissue. Stereotactic radiosurgery which is a special form of radiation therapy is relatively painless and non-invasive in contrast to open surgica/ techniques.
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