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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… ยง 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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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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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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Hold off on the Egg McMuffins before GES tests, experts say

AuntMinnie

Yet according to a recent review, GES meal protocols in hospitals across the U.S. Several reasons may be involved in why laboratories do not comply with the GES meal guideline, which was published by the Society Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) in 2009.

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Radiology leadership changes to begin in the new year

AuntMinnie

University of Virginia At the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine, Colin Derdeyn, MD, a stroke care specialist from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, was appointed chair of the UVA Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, UVA Health announced in October 2023.