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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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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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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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Cómo Responder a un Ataque de Ransomware en Radiología

Everything Rad

Por el Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI St James’s Hospital – Trinity College de Dublín. Algunos centros fuera de nuestro hospital pudieron configurar redes temporales con un mini PACS. Lleva ejerciendo como radiólogo desde 2008. Reading Time: 9 minutes read Lecciones aprendidas. Cómo archivaría las imágenes?

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REBEL Core Cast 119.0 – Sleep Hygiene

REBEL EM

2008 Jul 1;31(7):table of contents. Practice parameters for the clinical evaluation and treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine report. 2007 Nov;30(11):1445-59. doi: 10.1093/sleep/30.11.1445. Erratum in: Sleep. PMID: 18041479; PMCID: PMC2082098. Caffeine Walsh JK, Muehlbach MJ, Schweitzer PK.

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