Patient vulnerability in stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR): a preliminary ethical appraisal from the STOPSTORM.eu consortium.

Bioethics Cardiovascular disease Ethics in research Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Ventricular tachycardia

Journal

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]
ISSN: 1439-099X
Titre abrégé: Strahlenther Onkol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 8603469

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
23 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 13 01 2024
accepted: 17 03 2024
medline: 23 4 2024
pubmed: 23 4 2024
entrez: 23 4 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

This preliminary ethical appraisal from the STOPSTORM.eu consortium is meant to raise critical points that clinicians administering stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation should consider to meet the highest standards in medical ethics and thus promote quality of life of patients recruited for radiotherapy treatments at a stage in which they experience a significant degree of vulnerability.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38652131
doi: 10.1007/s00066-024-02230-w
pii: 10.1007/s00066-024-02230-w
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Subventions

Organisme : European Union Horizon 2020
ID : 945119

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Carlo Botrugno (C)

Research Unit on Everyday Bioethics and Ethics of Science, Department of Legal Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Legal Medicine and Bioethics, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Chiara Crico (C)

Legal Medicine and Bioethics, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Tumori, Milano, Italy.

Mauro Iori (M)

Medical Physics Unit, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Oliver Blanck (O)

Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany. oliver.blanck@uksh.de.

Slawomir Blamek (S)

Department of Radiotherapy, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland.

Pieter G Postema (PG)

Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Heart Failure & Arrhythmias, Amsterdam Heart Center and Cardiovascular Science, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Aurelio Quesada (A)

Cardiology Department, Arrhythmias Unit, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Valencia "San Vicente Martir", Valencia, Spain.

Etienne Pruvot (E)

Heart and Vessel Department, Service of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Joost J C Verhoeff (JJC)

Department of Radiotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Department of Radiotherapy, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Ludovica De Panfilis (L)

Legal Medicine and Bioethics, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

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