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Medicare proposes paying for CT colonography under hospital outpatient rule, drawing praise from radiology community

Radiology Business

The American College of Radiology has pushed for this decision since 2008, when trial results showed CTC or "virtual colonoscopy" to be a solid alternative to the traditional screening approach, which requires anesthesia.

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Pre-Hospital Antibiotics in Sepsis?

REBEL EM

PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26 to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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The Radiologist Shortage is Here

Ben White

If anything, the tighter job market after the 2008 crash and the desire to maintain income against that downward reimbursement pressure masked the problem. If the shortage gets worse, then turnaround times will continue to lengthen (and patients suffer) and hospitals will struggle to get coverage (and patients suffer).

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Responding to a Ransomware Attack in Radiology

Everything Rad

Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. In May 2021, St James’s Hospital in Dublin was one of 54 public hospitals affected when the Health Service Executive (HSE) was the victim of a Cyber Attack by Conti, a sophisticated, financially-motivated criminal gang.

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PET/CT predicts brain tumors in melanoma patients

AuntMinnie

In a retrospective study, a team at the University Hospital Salzburg in Austria studied baseline F-18 FDG-PET/CT imaging parameters in patients with melanoma and found they were associated with the development of metastatic brain tumors. A 49-year-old patient with primary clinical stage III melanoma underwent F-18 FDG-PET.

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REBEL Core Cast 125.0 – Hyperkalemia

REBEL EM

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2008; 3:324–330. Crit Care Med 2008; 36: 3246-51. Definition: A serum potassium level > 5.5 patients can jump from peaked T waves to sine wave) Management Basics: ABCs, IV, O 2 , Cardiac Monitor and, 12-lead EKG Identify + treat underlying cause of hyperkalemia (i.e. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2002; 17: 1639-42.

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AuntMinnie 2009: California technologist faces testimony in CT overdose case

AuntMinnie

In January 2008, 23-month-old Jacoby Roth fell out of bed, and when he could hardly move his head his worried parents took him to the emergency room at Mad River Community Hospital in Arcata, a small town 290 miles north of San Francisco. on January 23, 2008, and ended at 9:37 a.m. She did not testify during the hearing.