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AuntMinnie 2011: Joint Commission issues alert on medical radiation

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Our top article in 2011 reported on a “sentinel alert” issued by the U.S. The nonprofit commission was founded in 1951 and currently accredits some 19,000 organizations, including hospitals, physicians' offices, disease-specific care programs, stroke centers, and healthcare staffing services in the U.S.

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NYU Langone Health Reports New "AI Doctor," NYUTron, Predicts Hospital Readmission and Other Health Outcomes

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christine.book Wed, 06/21/2023 - 10:48 June 21, 2023 — NYU Langone Health has published an overview of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool designed to smooth hospital operations for better patient care. The resulting 4.1-billion-word

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AI model used with one-inhale CT helps diagnose COPD

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But some hospitals can't easily carry out expiratory CT protocols due to added training requirements, and elderly patients may have difficulty holding their breath during an expiratory CT exam, according to Hasenstab. CT is also used to diagnose COPD, and it requires two image acquisitions, inspiratory and expiratory.

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The PROPHY-VAP Trial: Ceftriaxone to Prevent VAP in Patients with Acute Brain Injury

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1, 2 Its occurrence often portends worse outcomes in intubated patients, whose projected hospital course was already tenuous. Stratified by center (different hospital practices may affect results) and GCS (<8 or ≥8) (higher VAP risk inherent to lower GCS). 4, 8 Paper: Dahyot-Fizelier, C.,

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AI model shows promise for interpreting follow-up chest x-rays

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million chest x-rays acquired from 329,036 patients at their hospital between 2011 and 2018 to train and validate the model. (C) Gradient-weighted class activation map shows the algorithm determined no change in the image pair, without relevant highlighting, as the highlighted area is located over the gastroesophageal junction.

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REBEL Cast Ep123: Reduced-Dose Systemic Peripheral Alteplase in Massive PE?

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in the paper but 2.7% to ≈0.99 (p<0.001) Mean MPI/Tei Index≈ 0.47 to 4.0mg/hr typically given in EKOS therapy (See Below). Management of Massive and Submassive Pulmonary Embolism, Iliofemoral Deep Vein Thrombosis, and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Circ 2004.

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Radiology Trailblazers Named RLI Leadership Luminaries

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He received the ACR Gold Medal in 2011 and has represented the ACR in the American Medical Association House of Delegates since 1996. Moore is a past chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors, the ACR Task Force on International Teleradiology and the ACR Task Force on Disaster Preparedness.