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The Modified Valsalva Maneuver: Practical Treatment or Pointless Trick?

REBEL EM

Most secondary outcomes were disease-oriented with an unclear clinical significance. Generally, adenosine has a favorable safety profile, with mostly minor side effects (Holdgate 2006). These rates are significantly lower than those in other research (Holdgate 2006). 2006;(4):CD005154. Published 2006 Oct 18.

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Clinical Conundrums: Should You Give the First Dose of Antibiotics IV Before Discharging Home on Oral Antibiotics?

REBEL EM

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2006; 333(7580):1193. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006(2). Oral administration of antibiotics: a rational alternative to the parenteral route. 1997; 24(3):457-67. PMID: 9114201 Siegel RE et al. BMJ (Clinical research ed.).

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ISMRM: Higher BMI measures translate to poorer brain health

AuntMinnie

It based the research on information from the KaiLuan study , which began in 2006 and consists of data from 681,275 individuals; this work included participants who visited the hospital at least three times and underwent brain MRI examination, with no evidence of dementia or mental disorders.

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CMS Expands Access to Beta Amyloid PET for Medicare Beneficiaries

Imaging Technology

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has tracked the movement of this national coverage determination (NCD) as previously reported and has advocated for removing existing barriers and providing broader access to beta-amyloid PET imaging for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) diagnosis, management and evaluation of newly approved therapies.

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MRI radiomics help predict cervical cancer treatment outcomes

AuntMinnie

Jeong and colleagues conducted a study that included 252 locally advanced cervical cancer patients who underwent chemoradiotherapy between 2006 and 2019, dividing the group into training (167 patients) and test (85 patients) sets for a radiomics algorithm based on data from T1- and T2-weighted MR scans. Overall, the team found that 77.4%

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REBEL Core Cast 122.0 – Neutropenic Fever

REBEL EM

Read More: Infectious Disease Society of America 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines Life in the Fast Lane: Febrile Neutropaenia Uptodate: overview of neutropenic fever syndromes EMRAP: Risk stratification of neutropenic fever MDCalc: MASCC Score MDCalc: CISNE Score References: Ahn S, Rice TW, Yeung SJ, Cooksley T. 2006 May 15;106(10):2258-66.

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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

REBEL EM

The degree of elevation does not predict disease severity. Executive Summary: 2015 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adults. ESR and CRP are sensitive, yet not specific. Clin Infect Dis 2015 Sept 15;61(6):859-63.