. 2016 Feb 25;11:26. doi: 10.1186/s13014-016-0606-x

Table 1.

Procedural steps and involvement staff of both ablation methods

	CT-HDRBT		CT-RFA
	Minutes	StaffCode	Minutes	Staff Code
Preparation
Patient registration	3 ± 0.7	TECH	3 ± 0.63	TECH
Preparation of sterile intervention table	8 ± 1.2	N
Preparation of sterile intervention table, instruments, and RFA device			12 ± 1.41	N
Patient positioning, unenhanced localizer scan	8^a ± 1.6	TECH	12^a ± 0.89	TECH
Patient positioning, unenhanced localizer scan	8^a ± 1.6	N	12^a ± 0.89	N
Placement of sterile drapes & disinfection	10^a ± 1.2	N	10^a ± 1.41	N
Placement of sterile drapes & disinfection	10^a ± 1.2	TECH	10^a ± 1.41	TECH
Review of images, final check-up	5 ± 1.1	INT-RAD	5 ± 0.63	INT-RAD
CT-Intervention
Induction of conscious sedation	3^a ± 0.5	PHYS	3^a ± 0	PHYS
		N		N
		N		TECH
Instrument guidance and positioning of brachytherapy catheters	14^a ± 2.4	INT-RAD
		N
		TECH
Instrument guidance and positioning of RFA probe			14^a ± 0.89	INT-RAD
				N
				TECH
RFA treatment			22 ^a ± 4.56	INT-RAD
				N
				TECH
Contrast-enhanced CT scan + assessment	5^a ± 0.7	INT-RAD	5^a ± 0.63	INT-RAD
		N		N
		TECH		TECH
Patient monitoring during intervention and postprocedural scan	19 ± 2.7	PHYS	44 ± 4.73	PHYS
Transfer to brachytherapy suite	10 ± 1.2	PHYS
Transfer to brachytherapy suite	10 ± 1.2	N
Radiotherapy planning	15 ± 1.5	INT-RAD
		RO
		MPE
Radiotherapy	25 ± 6.2	MPE
Patient monitoring during radiotherapy	25 ± 6.2	PHYS
Patient monitoring during radiotherapy	25 ± 6.2	N
Postprocedural Management
Retraction of brachytherapy catheters, tract sealing, and removal of sterile drapes	10 ± 1.5	PHYS
	10 ± 1.5	N
Removal of sterile drapes and transfer to recovery room			7 ± 1.26	PHYS
				TECH
				N
Transfer to recovery room	10 ± 1.5	PHYS
Transfer to recovery room	10 ± 1.5	N
Monitoring in recovery room	90 ± 11.1	N	90 ± 6.32	N
Documentation and clearance	8 ± 1.4	TECH	8 ± 1.4	TECH
Writing report	5 ± 0.8	INT-RAD	5 ± 0.8	INT-RAD

PHYS physician experienced in conscious sedation and for monitoring of the patient, N nurse, TECH technical assistant, INT-RAD interventional radiologist, MPE medical physics expert, RO radiation oncologist

^aCT blocked for this time period plus additional 10 min for room cleaning etc. Time needed for intervention and ablation were extracted from institutional PACS data for all patients. All other data were measured in a sample of 5 patients