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AuntMinnie 2009: California technologist faces testimony in CT overdose case

AuntMinnie

In 2009, our top article reported on an incident involving a child receiving over 150 CT scans in an hour. It was replaced a month after the incident, but hospital officials said the replacement had been planned long before and was unrelated. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024.

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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 Little White Lies of Radiology Partners

Ben White

I assure you no one starts a blog during their first year of medical school in 2009 and says, one day I hope to p**s on organized medicine and large corporations as a hobby forever. A brief and hopefully final private equity in radiology post for now. With that said… § The ACR runs a large and presumably quite profitable job forum. (I

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Ultrasound use shifts among radiologists, nonphysician practitioners

AuntMinnie

Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, VA, found that office ultrasound services have been mostly performed by radiologists while hospital outpatient and inpatient services have been performed more by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. from 2009 to 2021. in 2009 to 34.2% Researchers led by Casey Pelzl from the Harvey L.

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RayStation in More Than 1,000 Radiotherapy Centers Worldwide

Imaging Technology

The first version of RayStation was launched in 2009 and the system is now available in cancer centers in 43 countries worldwide. The first ever customer for RayStation was Westdeutsches Protonentherapiezentrum Essen (WPE) in Germany, who bought RayStation in 2009.

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CT-based AI algorithm comparable to rads for identifying renal masses

AuntMinnie

They developed the algorithm using data from one hospital between 2009 and 2021, dividing patients into training and internal test sets with a ratio of eight to two. They assessed the algorithm's performance using the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC), comparing it to seven radiologist readers.

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AART Honors Three in I Am The Gold Standard Program

Imaging Technology

His contributions have contributed to the growth of the MRI practice since it started in 2009. Patrick Wojtylak is a radiologic technologist at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio.